RT Journal Article
T1 Design and Deployment of an Open Management and Orchestration Platform for Multi-Site NFV Experimentation
A1 Nogales Dorado, Borja
A1 Vidal Fernández, Iván
A1 López, Diego R.
A1 Rodríguez, Juan
A1 García Reinoso, Jaime José
A1 Azcorra Saloña, Arturo
AB Management and orchestration of virtual resources and functions, commonly referred to as MANO, are key functionalities of NFV environments. This article describes the design and deployment of the NFV MANO platform of 5TONIC, the open research and innovation laboratory on 5G technologies founded by Telefonica and IMDEA Networks. This NFV MANO platform provides 5TONIC trials and experiments with access to a functional production-like NFV environment, enabling experimentation with novel NFV products and services. As a relevant feature, the platform is capable of incorporating external sites to complement the portfolio of software and hardware resources that can be made available for experimentation activities. The 5TONIC MANO platform has been designed and built using open source technologies. The research carried out during its design and deployment has resulted in a contribution already made to its upstream projects regarding the automated configuration of virtualized network functions. Finally, we explore the scalability properties of the 5TONIC MANO platform, and we experimentally validate its functional capacity to orchestrate multi-site experiments.
PB IEEE
SN 0163-6804
YR 2019
FD 2019-01-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39048
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39048
LA eng
NO This article has been partially supported by the European H2020 5GinFIRE project (grant agreement 732497) and by the 5GCity project (TEC2016-76795-C6-3-R) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
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