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ZTE Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (2): 8-17.DOI: DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2014.02.002

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Service Parameter Exposure and Dynamic Service Negotiation in SDN Environments

M. Boucadair and C. Jacquenet   

  1. Orange Group, 4 rue du Clos Courtel, Cesson-Sévigné, 35512, France
  • Received:2014-02-18 Online:2014-06-25 Published:2014-06-25
  • About author:Mohamed Boucadair (mohamed.boucadair@orange.com) is a senior IP architect at France Telecom. He has worked for France Telecom R&D and has been part of the team working on VoIP services. He is now working at France Telecom corporate division and is responsible for making recommendations on the evolution of IP/MPLS core networks. He has been involved in IST research projects, working on dynamic provisioning and inter-domain traffic engineering. He has published many journal articles and written extensively on these subject areas. Mr. Boucadair holds several patents on VoIP, IPv4 service continuity, IPv6, etc.

    Christian Jacquenet (christian.jacquenet@orange.com) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, a French school of engineers. He joined Orange in 1989 and is currently the director of the Strategic Program Office for Advanced IP Networking. In particular, he is responsible of the Groupwise IPv6 Program that aims to define and drive enforcement of the Group’s IPv6 strategy. He has authored and co-authored several Internet drafts and RFCs in the field of dynamic routing protocols and provisioning techniques. He has also authored and coauthored multiple papers and books on IP
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported in part by the EIT SOFTNETS Project.

Service Parameter Exposure and Dynamic Service Negotiation in SDN Environments

M. Boucadair and C. Jacquenet   

  1. Orange Group, 4 rue du Clos Courtel, Cesson-Sévigné, 35512, France
  • 作者简介:Mohamed Boucadair (mohamed.boucadair@orange.com) is a senior IP architect at France Telecom. He has worked for France Telecom R&D and has been part of the team working on VoIP services. He is now working at France Telecom corporate division and is responsible for making recommendations on the evolution of IP/MPLS core networks. He has been involved in IST research projects, working on dynamic provisioning and inter-domain traffic engineering. He has published many journal articles and written extensively on these subject areas. Mr. Boucadair holds several patents on VoIP, IPv4 service continuity, IPv6, etc.

    Christian Jacquenet (christian.jacquenet@orange.com) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, a French school of engineers. He joined Orange in 1989 and is currently the director of the Strategic Program Office for Advanced IP Networking. In particular, he is responsible of the Groupwise IPv6 Program that aims to define and drive enforcement of the Group’s IPv6 strategy. He has authored and co-authored several Internet drafts and RFCs in the field of dynamic routing protocols and provisioning techniques. He has also authored and coauthored multiple papers and books on IP
  • 基金资助:
    This work was supported in part by the EIT SOFTNETS Project.

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Abstract: Software-defined networking (SDN) is a generic term and one of the major interests of the telecoms industry (and beyond) over the past two years. However, defining SDN is a somewhat controversial exercise. The claimed flexibility, as well as other presumed assets of SDN, should be carefully investigated. In particular, the use of SDN to dynamically provision network services suggests the introduction of a certain level of automation in the overall network service delivery process, from service parameter negotiation to delivery and operation. This paper aims to clarify the SDN landscape and focuses on two main aspects of the SDN framework: network abstraction, and dynamic parameter exposure and negotiation.

Key words: software-defined networking (SDN), service parameter exposure and negotiation, network operation automation, autonomic networking

摘要： Software-defined networking (SDN) is a generic term and one of the major interests of the telecoms industry (and beyond) over the past two years. However, defining SDN is a somewhat controversial exercise. The claimed flexibility, as well as other presumed assets of SDN, should be carefully investigated. In particular, the use of SDN to dynamically provision network services suggests the introduction of a certain level of automation in the overall network service delivery process, from service parameter negotiation to delivery and operation. This paper aims to clarify the SDN landscape and focuses on two main aspects of the SDN framework: network abstraction, and dynamic parameter exposure and negotiation.

关键词: software-defined networking (SDN), service parameter exposure and negotiation, network operation automation, autonomic networking