StateOS: Enabling Versatile Network Function Virtualization in Edge Clouds

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Abstract

Network Functions (NFs) in edge clouds are required to provide scalability, fault tolerance, and mobility support. They all require maintaining NF states (i.e., processing results), e.g., for recovery, especially for stateful NFs like firewalls. Even though current solutions provide an alternative to storing states in memory, their design can support only a single requirement, either fault tolerance or scaling. Advocating the versatility, we propose StateOS - an operating system of NF states for user-defined programs supporting different requirements. Additionally, we propose a state transfer scheme, namely Divide-and-Conquer (DAC), to accelerate StateOS. The combination of DAC and StateOS demonstrates its efficiency for all three scenarios: scaling, fault tolerance, and service function chain acceleration.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2024, NOMS 2024
EditorsJames Won-Ki Hong, Seung-Joon Seok, Yuji Nomura, You-Chiun Wang, Baek-Young Choi, Myung-Sup Kim, Roberto Riggio, Meng-Hsun Tsai, Carlos Raniery Paula dos Santos
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1-9
ISBN (electronic)9798350327939
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE Symposium on Network Operations and Management (NOMS)

Conference

Title37th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
SubtitleTowards intelligent, reliable, and sustainable network and service management
Abbreviated titleNOMS 2024
Conference number37
Duration6 - 10 May 2024
Website
LocationThe-K Hotel Seoul
CitySeoul
CountryKorea, Republic of

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/172567550
ORCID /0000-0001-7008-1537/work/172571313