A Large-Scale NFV-Based Emulation Platform for Smart Identifier Network

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2017.03.001

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A Large-Scale NFV-Based Emulation Platform for Smart Identifier Network

LI Haifeng, LI Taixin, ZHANG Hongke

Institute of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China

Received:2017-05-26 Online:2017-08-25 Published:2019-12-24
About author:LI Haifeng (haifengli@bjtu.edu.cn) received the B.E. degree in communication and information systems from the Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2013. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree at the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. He has participated in several national research programs of China such as “973” Program and “863” Program. His research interests include future Internet, Delay Tolerant Networking, High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing.|LI Taixin (14111040@bjtu.edu.cn) received the B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2013, and then entered National Engineering Lab for Next Generation Internet Interconnection Devices at BJTU. Currently, he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications and information system at BJTU, China. His research interests include next generation internet, network services and satellite network.|ZHANG Hongke (hkzhang@bjtu.edu.cn) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and communication systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (formerly known as Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering) in 1988 and 1992, respectively. From September 1992 to June 1994, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Beijing Jiaotong University (formerly known as Northern Jiaotong University). In July 1994, he joined Beijing Jiaotong University, where he is a Professor. He currently directs a National Engineering Lab on Next Generation Internet in China. He is a Senior member of IEEE, and has published more than 100 research papers in the areas of communications, computer networks, and information theory. He is the author of eight books written in Chinese and the holder of more than 30 patents. Dr. Zhang received the Zhan Tianyou Science and Technology Improvement Award in 2001, the Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Improvement Award in 2003, the First Class Science and Technology Improvement Award of the Beijing government in 2005, and other various awards. He is now the Chief Scientist of a National Basic Research Program (“973” Program).

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Network emulation is significant because of its ability to study network architecture running on real operating system and the whole protocol stack. However, conservatively allocating a physical network equipment for a corresponding emulation network is costly, scale-limited and rigid. In this paper, based on network function virtualization (NFV), we present a large-scale emulation platform for the Smart Identifier Network (SINET). We pool and virtualize all hardware resources by lightweight virtualization technology. Controllers and orchestrators are designed to manage emulation and collect monitored SINET emulation results. The controllers are used to implement dynamically synchronously management for large-scale emulation network and link characteristics. The orchestrators are utilized to achieve overload avoidance and green computing with the Xiao’s dynamic resource allocation algorithm. We implement flexibly programmable and dynamically configurable emulation.

Key words: NFV, SINET, emulation, virtualization, control, orchestration

LI Haifeng, LI Taixin, ZHANG Hongke. A Large-Scale NFV-Based Emulation Platform for Smart Identifier Network[J]. ZTE Communications, 2017, 15(3): 2-7.

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