As SD-WAN disrupts legacy WAN technologies and becomes the preferred WAN technology adopted by corporations, and Kubernetes becomes the de-facto container orchestration tool, the opportunities for deploying edge-computing containerized applications running over SD-WAN are vast. Service orchestration in SD-WAN has not been provided with enough attention, resulting in the lack of research focused on service discovery in these scenarios. In this article, an in-house service discovery solution that works alongside Kubernetes’ master node for allowing improved traffic handling and better user experience when running micro-services is developed. The service discovery solution was conceived following a design science research approach. Our research includes the implementation of a proof-ofconcept SD-WAN topology alongside a Kubernetes cluster that allows us to deploy custom services and delimit the necessary characteristics of our in-house solution. Also, the implementation's performance is tested based on the required times for updating the discovery solution according to service updates. Finally, some conclusions and modifications are pointed out based on the results, while also discussing possible enhancements.
A Centralized Network Management Application for Academia and Small Business ...ITIIIndustries
Software-defined networking (SDN) is reshaping the networking paradigm. Previous research shows that SDN has advantages over traditional networks because it separates the control and data plane, leading to greater flexibility through network automation and programmability. Small business and academia networks require flexibility, like service provider networks, to scale, deploy, and self-heal network infrastructure that comprises of cloud operating systems, virtual machines, containers, vendor networking equipment, and virtual network functions (VNFs); however, as SDN evolves in industry, there has been limited research to develop an SDN architecture to fulfil the requirements of small business and academia networks. This research proposes a network architecture that can abstract, orchestrate, and scale configurations based on academia and small business network requirements. Our results show that the proposed architecture provides enhanced network management and operations when combined with the network orchestration application (NetO-App) developed in this research. The NetO-App orchestrates network policies, automates configuration changes, secures container infrastructure, and manages internal and external communication between the campus networking infrastructure.
HYBRID OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL NETWORK FLOWS SCHEDULING IN CLOUD DATA CENTRESijcsit
This document summarizes a research paper on scheduling flows in hybrid optical and electrical networks for cloud data centers. The paper proposes a strategy for selecting which flows are suitable to switch from the electrical packet network to the optical circuit network. It presents techniques for detecting bottlenecks in the packet network and selecting flows to offload. Simulation results showed improved network performance from this flow selection approach, including higher average throughput, lower configuration delay, and more stable offloaded flows.
Efficient architectural framework of cloud computing Souvik Pal
This document discusses an efficient architectural framework for cloud computing. It begins by providing background on cloud computing and discusses challenges such as security, privacy, and reliability. It then proposes a new architectural framework that separates infrastructure as a service (IaaS) into three sub-modules: IaaS itself, a hypervisor monitoring environment (HME), and resources as a service (RaaS). The HME acts as middleware between IaaS and physical resources, using a hypervisor to allocate resources from a pool managed by RaaS. This proposed framework is intended to improve performance and access speed for cloud computing.
This document discusses several research papers related to networking, mobile computing, cloud computing, security, and data engineering. The papers cover topics such as energy-efficient networking protocols, buffer sizing in routers, live streaming techniques, address misconfiguration detection, dynamic routing, location monitoring in wireless sensor networks, multicasting in mobile ad hoc networks, throughput optimization, traffic measurement, data integrity in cloud storage, data compression techniques, recommendation diversity, application placement, document clustering, query-dependent ranking, cloud caching, parallel data processing, service system monitoring, proxy caching, TCP throughput prediction, online social networks, intrusion detection, failure detection, intrusion detection, privacy-
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This document discusses security protocols for high performance grid computing architectures. It analyzes the different network layers in grid computing protocols and identifies various security disciplines. It also analyzes various security suites available in the TCP/IP protocol architecture. The paper aims to define security disciplines at different levels of cluster computing architecture and propose applicable security suites from the TCP/IP security protocol suite. Grid computing allows sharing and aggregation of distributed computing resources to enable more powerful applications. Security is an important consideration in grid computing due to sharing resources across administrative domains.
According to a new Gartner report1, “Around 10% of enterprise-generated data is created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud. By 2022, Gartner predicts this
figure will reach 75%”. In addition to hosting new 5G era services, the other major network operator driver for edge compute and edge clouds is deploying virtualized network infrastructure, replacing many dedicated hardware-based elements with virtual network functions (VNFs) running on general purpose edge compute. Even portions of access networks are being virtualized, and many of these functions need to be deployed close to end users. The combination of these infrastructure and applications drivers is a major reason that so much of 5G era network transformation resolves around edge cloud distribution.
Implementing K-Out-Of-N Computing For Fault Tolerant Processing In Mobile and...IJERA Editor
Despite the advances in hardware for hand-held mobile devices, resource-intensive applications (e.g., video and imagestorage and processing or map-reduce type) still remain off bounds since they require large computation and storage capabilities.Recent research has attempted to address these issues by employing remote servers, such as clouds and peer mobile devices.For mobile devices deployed in dynamic networks (i.e., with frequent topology changes because of node failure/unavailability andmobility as in a mobile cloud), however, challenges of reliability and energy efficiency remain largely unaddressed. To the best of ourknowledge, we are the first to address these challenges in an integrated manner for both data storage and processing in mobilecloud, an approach we call k-out-of-n computing. In our solution, mobile devices successfully retrieve or process data, in the mostenergy-efficient way, as long as k out of n remote servers are accessible. Through a real system implementation we prove the feasibilityof our approach. Extensive simulations demonstrate the fault tolerance and energy efficiency performance of our framework in largerscale networks.
A Centralized Network Management Application for Academia and Small Business ...ITIIIndustries
Software-defined networking (SDN) is reshaping the networking paradigm. Previous research shows that SDN has advantages over traditional networks because it separates the control and data plane, leading to greater flexibility through network automation and programmability. Small business and academia networks require flexibility, like service provider networks, to scale, deploy, and self-heal network infrastructure that comprises of cloud operating systems, virtual machines, containers, vendor networking equipment, and virtual network functions (VNFs); however, as SDN evolves in industry, there has been limited research to develop an SDN architecture to fulfil the requirements of small business and academia networks. This research proposes a network architecture that can abstract, orchestrate, and scale configurations based on academia and small business network requirements. Our results show that the proposed architecture provides enhanced network management and operations when combined with the network orchestration application (NetO-App) developed in this research. The NetO-App orchestrates network policies, automates configuration changes, secures container infrastructure, and manages internal and external communication between the campus networking infrastructure.
HYBRID OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL NETWORK FLOWS SCHEDULING IN CLOUD DATA CENTRESijcsit
This document summarizes a research paper on scheduling flows in hybrid optical and electrical networks for cloud data centers. The paper proposes a strategy for selecting which flows are suitable to switch from the electrical packet network to the optical circuit network. It presents techniques for detecting bottlenecks in the packet network and selecting flows to offload. Simulation results showed improved network performance from this flow selection approach, including higher average throughput, lower configuration delay, and more stable offloaded flows.
Efficient architectural framework of cloud computing Souvik Pal
This document discusses an efficient architectural framework for cloud computing. It begins by providing background on cloud computing and discusses challenges such as security, privacy, and reliability. It then proposes a new architectural framework that separates infrastructure as a service (IaaS) into three sub-modules: IaaS itself, a hypervisor monitoring environment (HME), and resources as a service (RaaS). The HME acts as middleware between IaaS and physical resources, using a hypervisor to allocate resources from a pool managed by RaaS. This proposed framework is intended to improve performance and access speed for cloud computing.
This document discusses several research papers related to networking, mobile computing, cloud computing, security, and data engineering. The papers cover topics such as energy-efficient networking protocols, buffer sizing in routers, live streaming techniques, address misconfiguration detection, dynamic routing, location monitoring in wireless sensor networks, multicasting in mobile ad hoc networks, throughput optimization, traffic measurement, data integrity in cloud storage, data compression techniques, recommendation diversity, application placement, document clustering, query-dependent ranking, cloud caching, parallel data processing, service system monitoring, proxy caching, TCP throughput prediction, online social networks, intrusion detection, failure detection, intrusion detection, privacy-
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This document discusses security protocols for high performance grid computing architectures. It analyzes the different network layers in grid computing protocols and identifies various security disciplines. It also analyzes various security suites available in the TCP/IP protocol architecture. The paper aims to define security disciplines at different levels of cluster computing architecture and propose applicable security suites from the TCP/IP security protocol suite. Grid computing allows sharing and aggregation of distributed computing resources to enable more powerful applications. Security is an important consideration in grid computing due to sharing resources across administrative domains.
According to a new Gartner report1, “Around 10% of enterprise-generated data is created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud. By 2022, Gartner predicts this
figure will reach 75%”. In addition to hosting new 5G era services, the other major network operator driver for edge compute and edge clouds is deploying virtualized network infrastructure, replacing many dedicated hardware-based elements with virtual network functions (VNFs) running on general purpose edge compute. Even portions of access networks are being virtualized, and many of these functions need to be deployed close to end users. The combination of these infrastructure and applications drivers is a major reason that so much of 5G era network transformation resolves around edge cloud distribution.
Implementing K-Out-Of-N Computing For Fault Tolerant Processing In Mobile and...IJERA Editor
Despite the advances in hardware for hand-held mobile devices, resource-intensive applications (e.g., video and imagestorage and processing or map-reduce type) still remain off bounds since they require large computation and storage capabilities.Recent research has attempted to address these issues by employing remote servers, such as clouds and peer mobile devices.For mobile devices deployed in dynamic networks (i.e., with frequent topology changes because of node failure/unavailability andmobility as in a mobile cloud), however, challenges of reliability and energy efficiency remain largely unaddressed. To the best of ourknowledge, we are the first to address these challenges in an integrated manner for both data storage and processing in mobilecloud, an approach we call k-out-of-n computing. In our solution, mobile devices successfully retrieve or process data, in the mostenergy-efficient way, as long as k out of n remote servers are accessible. Through a real system implementation we prove the feasibilityof our approach. Extensive simulations demonstrate the fault tolerance and energy efficiency performance of our framework in largerscale networks.
A review on orchestration distributed systems for IoT smart services in fog c...IJECEIAES
This paper provides a review of orchestration distributed systems for IoT smart services in fog computing. The cloud infrastructure alone cannot handle the flow of information with the abundance of data, devices and interactions. Thus, fog computing becomes a new paradigm to overcome the problem. One of the first challenges was to build the orchestration systems to activate the clouds and to execute tasks throughout the whole system that has to be considered to the situation in the large scale of geographical distance, heterogeneity and low latency to support the limitation of cloud computing. Some problems exist for orchestration distributed in fog computing are to fulfil with high reliability and low-delay requirements in the IoT applications system and to form a larger computer network like a fog network, at different geographic sites. This paper reviewed approximately 68 articles on orchestration distributed system for fog computing. The result shows the orchestration distribute system and some of the evaluation criteria for fog computing that have been compared in terms of Borg, Kubernetes, Swarm, Mesos, Aurora, heterogeneity, QoS management, scalability, mobility, federation, and interoperability. The significance of this study is to support the researcher in developing orchestration distributed systems for IoT smart services in fog computing focus on IR4.0 national agenda.
Cloud computing and Software defined networkingsaigandham1
This is my Graduate defense presentation. I have interest in various topics like cloud computing and software defined networking. This slides includes the research of various researchers on cloud computing and SDN, presented their work as my comprehensive exam.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR DMM IN SDN AND VIRTUALIZATION-BASED MOBILE NETWORK ARCHITECTUREijmnct
The (r)evolution of wireless access infrastructure can be described as the convergence of the available radio communication systems towards a harmonized, more flexible and reconfigurable access system to match the current and upcoming demands. In recent years Softwarization and Virtualization technologies have moved from server and network domains to wireless domain and provides new perspectives of
managing mobile networks functionalities. This paper provides evolution of the mobile network architecture in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and virtualization context and realizes it through the use of distribution of gateway function approach. Key improvements with proposed approach are to support efficient mobility management in heterogeneous access environments, remove the chains of IP preservation and optimal data path management according to application needs. A functional setup validates and assays the proposed evolution in terms of inter-system handover preparation, interruption
and completion time relative to control plane delay requirements of the 5G networks.
Improvements for DMM in SDN and Virtualization-Based Mobile Network Architectureijmnct
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes improvements to distributed mobility management (DMM) in software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization-based mobile network architectures. The paper presents a new "Software defined plus virtualization featured Mobile Network (S+ MN)" architecture that uses SDN controllers and virtualization to distribute gateway functions. This allows for more efficient mobility management across heterogeneous networks, removal of IP address preservation chains during handovers, and optimal data path management according to application needs. The paper then evaluates the S+ MN architecture in terms of inter-system handover performance relative to control plane delay requirements for 5G networks.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR DMM IN SDN AND VIRTUALIZATION-BASED MOBILE NETWORK ARCHITECTUREijmnct
The (r)evolution of wireless access infrastructure can be described as the convergence of the available radio communication systems towards a harmonized, more flexible and reconfigurable access system to match the current and upcoming demands. In recent years Softwarization and Virtualization technologies have moved from server and network domains to wireless domain and provides new perspectives of managing mobile networks functionalities. This paper provides evolution of the mobile network architecture in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and virtualization context and realizes it through the use of distribution of gateway function approach. Key improvements with proposed approach are to support efficient mobility management in heterogeneous access environments, remove the chains of IP
preservation and optimal data path management according to application needs. A functional setup
validates and assays the proposed evolution in terms of inter-system handover preparation, interruption and completion time relative to control plane delay requirements of the 5G networks.
Software-Defined Networking (SDN): An Opportunity?Ahmed Banafa
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging architecture that is dynamic, manageable, cost-effective, and adaptable, making it ideal for the high-bandwidth, dynamic nature of today's applications. This architecture decouples the network control and forwarding functions (Routing) enabling the network control to become directly programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be abstracted for applications and network services, which can treat the network as a logical or virtual entity.
This document provides an introduction and overview of software defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and edge computing. It defines SDN as separating the network control plane from the data plane, with centralized control and abstracted infrastructure. NFV is described as virtualizing network services like routing that traditionally ran on hardware. Edge computing is defined as bringing cloud services and processing closer to end users for faster response times. The document also outlines the architectures, applications, and comparisons of these technologies.
IRJET- Fog Route:Distribution of Data using Delay Tolerant NetworkIRJET Journal
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes using delay tolerant network (DTN) approaches for data dissemination in fog computing networks. It describes a hybrid data dissemination framework with a two-plane architecture: 1) the cloud serves as a control plane to process content updates and organize data flows, and 2) geometrically distributed fog servers form a data plane to disseminate data among themselves using DTN techniques. This allows non-urgent, high-volume content to be distributed across fog servers in an efficient manner without relying on expensive bandwidth between the fog and cloud layers.
Group chain is a scalable public blockchain of two-chain structure. Built on the principle of reducing consensus size to achieve high transaction efficiency. Employs the leader group with a small size to collectively commit blocks. Group chain reduce transaction confirmation latency. Achieves a throughput of over 800 TPS with a small leader group size. Performance is close to 600 TPS even in a ledger group size is 100.
This volume of the Open Datacenter Interoperable Network (ODIN) describes software defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow. SDN is used to simplify network control and management, automate network virtualization services, and provide a platform from which to build agile ....
This document is Priyanka R. Nayak's seminar report on cloud computing submitted to Visvesvaraya Technological University. It discusses key concepts of cloud computing including cyber infrastructure, service-oriented architecture, cloud types (public, private, hybrid), cloud architecture, and cloud components. The report provides an introduction to cloud computing and covers topics such as virtualization and users.
A Virtualization Model for Cloud ComputingSouvik Pal
Cloud Computing is now a very emerging field in the IT industry as well as research field. The advancement of Cloud Computing came up due to fast-growing usage of internet among the people. Cloud Computing is basically on-demand network access to a collection of physical resources which can be provisioned according to the need of cloud user under the supervision of Cloud Service provider interaction. From business prospective, the viable achievements of Cloud Computing and recent developments in Grid computing have brought the platform that has introduced virtualization technology into the era of high performance computing. Virtualization technology is widely applied to modern data center for cloud computing. Virtualization is used computer resources to imitate other computer resources or whole computers. This paper provides a Virtualization model for cloud computing that may lead to faster access and better performance. This model may help to combine self-service capabilities and ready-to-use facilities for computing resources.
Cisco Network Convergence System: Building the Foundation for the Internet of...Cisco Service Provider
Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) is a family of integrated packet routing and transport systems designed to help service providers capture their share of the IoE Value at Stake. NCS is built on major innovations in silicon, optics and software and provides the building blocks of a multilayer converged network that intelligently manages and scales functions across its architecture.
ACG Research analyzed the business case for NCS and found it achieves massive scale via multichassis system architecture, the density and performance of its new chip set, and the extension of the control plane to virtual machines (VM) internally and externally.
Disambiguating Advanced Computing for Humanities ResearchersBaden Hughes
The document discusses how advanced computing can enable new opportunities in data-intensive humanities research by providing computational capabilities beyond what is ordinarily available. It outlines the types of advanced computing including clusters, grids, and middleware. It also describes application execution models, interfaces to advanced computing resources, and how this can help humanities researchers answer old questions and discover new ones through computational analysis of large datasets.
This document discusses security issues in cloud computing. It begins by defining cloud computing and describing its service models and deployment models. It then identifies several key security issues in cloud computing, including security, privacy, reliability, lack of open standards, compliance, and concerns about long-term viability of data. Security is identified as the top challenge according to a survey of IT executives. The document argues that more must be done to address security, privacy, and other issues in order to fully realize the potential of cloud computing.
This document discusses security issues related to data location in cloud computing. It notes that cloud computing allows on-demand access to computing resources over the internet, but users often do not know where their data is physically stored or which country's laws govern the data. The research aims to develop a model for controlling data resources stored in cloud servers and implementing data manipulation techniques to protect data from unauthorized access across different country servers. The proposed action research methodology involves investigating how cloud vendors control customer data on cloud servers located in various jurisdictions.
This document provides a 3 paragraph summary of a seminar report on cloud computing submitted by Rahul Gupta to his professor Shraddha Khenka. The report acknowledges those who contributed to advancements in internet and computing technologies that enable cloud computing. It includes an introduction to cloud computing, comparisons to other technologies, economics of cloud computing, architectural layers, key features, deployment models, and issues. The summary covers the essential topics and information presented in the seminar report on cloud computing.
This document discusses the core concepts of cloud computing. It begins by explaining how cloud computing evolved from earlier technologies like mainframe computing, client-server systems, virtualization, distributed computing, and internet technologies. It then defines the key aspects of cloud computing models, including service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models (private, public, hybrid cloud). The document also outlines some of the core desired features of cloud computing like self-service, elasticity, metering and billing, and customization. Finally, it discusses some challenges and risks of cloud computing including security, privacy, trust issues as well as dependency on the cloud infrastructure.
A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO CLOUD TRAFFIC TRIBULATIONSijwscjournal
Cloud computing is generally believed to the most gifted technological revolution in computing and it will soon become an industry standard. It is believed that cloud will replace the traditional office setup. However a big question mark exists over the network performance when the cloud traffic explodes. We
call it “explosion” as in future we know that various cloud services replacing desktop computing will be accessed via cloud and the traffic increases exponentially. This journal aims at addressing some of these doubts better called “dangers” about the network performance, when cloud becomes a standard globally and providing a comprehensive solution to those problems. Our study concentrates on, that despite of offering better round-trip times and throughputs, cloud appears to consistently lose large amounts of the data that it is required to send to the clients. In this journal, we give a concise survey on the research efforts in this area. Our survey findings show that the networking research community has converged to the common understanding that a measurement infrastructure is insufficient for the optimal operation and future growth of the cloud. Despite many proposals on building an network measurement infrastructure from the research community, we believe that it will not be in the near future for such an
infrastructure to be fully deployed and operational, due to both the scale and the complexity of the network. We also suggest a set of technologies to identify and manage cloud traffic using IP header DS field, QoS protocols, MPLS/IP Header Compression, Use of high speed edge routers and cloud traffic flow measurement. In the solution DS Field of IP header will be used to recognize the cloud traffic separately, QOS protocols provide the cloud traffic, the type of QOS it requires by allocating resources and marking cloud traffic identification. Further the MPLS/IP Header Compression is performed so that the traffic can pass through the existing network efficiently and speedily. The solution also suggests deployment of high speed edge routers to improve network conditions and finally it suggest to measure the traffic flow using meters for better cloud network management. Our solutions assume that cloud is being assessed via basic public network.
A Comparison of Cloud Execution Mechanisms Fog, Edge, and Clone Cloud Computing IJECEIAES
Cloud computing is a technology that was developed a decade ago to provide uninterrupted, scalable services to users and organizations. Cloud computing has also become an attractive feature for mobile users due to the limited features of mobile devices. The combination of cloud technologies with mobile technologies resulted in a new area of computing called mobile cloud computing. This combined technology is used to augment the resources existing in Smart devices. In recent times, Fog computing, Edge computing, and Clone Cloud computing techniques have become the latest trends after mobile cloud computing, which have all been developed to address the limitations in cloud computing. This paper reviews these recent technologies in detail and provides a comparative study of them. It also addresses the differences in these technologies and how each of them is effective for organizations and developers.
An Investigation into Convergence of Networking and Storage Solutions Blesson Babu
This document discusses convergence of networking and storage solutions through technologies like software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). It investigates SDN and networked storage, how they can improve efficiency by reducing wasted capacity and simplifying management. The document also examines using SDN in a cloud computing environment to increase operational efficiency of data centers.
A review on orchestration distributed systems for IoT smart services in fog c...IJECEIAES
This paper provides a review of orchestration distributed systems for IoT smart services in fog computing. The cloud infrastructure alone cannot handle the flow of information with the abundance of data, devices and interactions. Thus, fog computing becomes a new paradigm to overcome the problem. One of the first challenges was to build the orchestration systems to activate the clouds and to execute tasks throughout the whole system that has to be considered to the situation in the large scale of geographical distance, heterogeneity and low latency to support the limitation of cloud computing. Some problems exist for orchestration distributed in fog computing are to fulfil with high reliability and low-delay requirements in the IoT applications system and to form a larger computer network like a fog network, at different geographic sites. This paper reviewed approximately 68 articles on orchestration distributed system for fog computing. The result shows the orchestration distribute system and some of the evaluation criteria for fog computing that have been compared in terms of Borg, Kubernetes, Swarm, Mesos, Aurora, heterogeneity, QoS management, scalability, mobility, federation, and interoperability. The significance of this study is to support the researcher in developing orchestration distributed systems for IoT smart services in fog computing focus on IR4.0 national agenda.
Cloud computing and Software defined networkingsaigandham1
This is my Graduate defense presentation. I have interest in various topics like cloud computing and software defined networking. This slides includes the research of various researchers on cloud computing and SDN, presented their work as my comprehensive exam.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR DMM IN SDN AND VIRTUALIZATION-BASED MOBILE NETWORK ARCHITECTUREijmnct
The (r)evolution of wireless access infrastructure can be described as the convergence of the available radio communication systems towards a harmonized, more flexible and reconfigurable access system to match the current and upcoming demands. In recent years Softwarization and Virtualization technologies have moved from server and network domains to wireless domain and provides new perspectives of
managing mobile networks functionalities. This paper provides evolution of the mobile network architecture in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and virtualization context and realizes it through the use of distribution of gateway function approach. Key improvements with proposed approach are to support efficient mobility management in heterogeneous access environments, remove the chains of IP preservation and optimal data path management according to application needs. A functional setup validates and assays the proposed evolution in terms of inter-system handover preparation, interruption
and completion time relative to control plane delay requirements of the 5G networks.
Improvements for DMM in SDN and Virtualization-Based Mobile Network Architectureijmnct
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes improvements to distributed mobility management (DMM) in software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization-based mobile network architectures. The paper presents a new "Software defined plus virtualization featured Mobile Network (S+ MN)" architecture that uses SDN controllers and virtualization to distribute gateway functions. This allows for more efficient mobility management across heterogeneous networks, removal of IP address preservation chains during handovers, and optimal data path management according to application needs. The paper then evaluates the S+ MN architecture in terms of inter-system handover performance relative to control plane delay requirements for 5G networks.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR DMM IN SDN AND VIRTUALIZATION-BASED MOBILE NETWORK ARCHITECTUREijmnct
The (r)evolution of wireless access infrastructure can be described as the convergence of the available radio communication systems towards a harmonized, more flexible and reconfigurable access system to match the current and upcoming demands. In recent years Softwarization and Virtualization technologies have moved from server and network domains to wireless domain and provides new perspectives of managing mobile networks functionalities. This paper provides evolution of the mobile network architecture in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and virtualization context and realizes it through the use of distribution of gateway function approach. Key improvements with proposed approach are to support efficient mobility management in heterogeneous access environments, remove the chains of IP
preservation and optimal data path management according to application needs. A functional setup
validates and assays the proposed evolution in terms of inter-system handover preparation, interruption and completion time relative to control plane delay requirements of the 5G networks.
Software-Defined Networking (SDN): An Opportunity?Ahmed Banafa
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging architecture that is dynamic, manageable, cost-effective, and adaptable, making it ideal for the high-bandwidth, dynamic nature of today's applications. This architecture decouples the network control and forwarding functions (Routing) enabling the network control to become directly programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be abstracted for applications and network services, which can treat the network as a logical or virtual entity.
This document provides an introduction and overview of software defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and edge computing. It defines SDN as separating the network control plane from the data plane, with centralized control and abstracted infrastructure. NFV is described as virtualizing network services like routing that traditionally ran on hardware. Edge computing is defined as bringing cloud services and processing closer to end users for faster response times. The document also outlines the architectures, applications, and comparisons of these technologies.
IRJET- Fog Route:Distribution of Data using Delay Tolerant NetworkIRJET Journal
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes using delay tolerant network (DTN) approaches for data dissemination in fog computing networks. It describes a hybrid data dissemination framework with a two-plane architecture: 1) the cloud serves as a control plane to process content updates and organize data flows, and 2) geometrically distributed fog servers form a data plane to disseminate data among themselves using DTN techniques. This allows non-urgent, high-volume content to be distributed across fog servers in an efficient manner without relying on expensive bandwidth between the fog and cloud layers.
Group chain is a scalable public blockchain of two-chain structure. Built on the principle of reducing consensus size to achieve high transaction efficiency. Employs the leader group with a small size to collectively commit blocks. Group chain reduce transaction confirmation latency. Achieves a throughput of over 800 TPS with a small leader group size. Performance is close to 600 TPS even in a ledger group size is 100.
This volume of the Open Datacenter Interoperable Network (ODIN) describes software defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow. SDN is used to simplify network control and management, automate network virtualization services, and provide a platform from which to build agile ....
This document is Priyanka R. Nayak's seminar report on cloud computing submitted to Visvesvaraya Technological University. It discusses key concepts of cloud computing including cyber infrastructure, service-oriented architecture, cloud types (public, private, hybrid), cloud architecture, and cloud components. The report provides an introduction to cloud computing and covers topics such as virtualization and users.
A Virtualization Model for Cloud ComputingSouvik Pal
Cloud Computing is now a very emerging field in the IT industry as well as research field. The advancement of Cloud Computing came up due to fast-growing usage of internet among the people. Cloud Computing is basically on-demand network access to a collection of physical resources which can be provisioned according to the need of cloud user under the supervision of Cloud Service provider interaction. From business prospective, the viable achievements of Cloud Computing and recent developments in Grid computing have brought the platform that has introduced virtualization technology into the era of high performance computing. Virtualization technology is widely applied to modern data center for cloud computing. Virtualization is used computer resources to imitate other computer resources or whole computers. This paper provides a Virtualization model for cloud computing that may lead to faster access and better performance. This model may help to combine self-service capabilities and ready-to-use facilities for computing resources.
Cisco Network Convergence System: Building the Foundation for the Internet of...Cisco Service Provider
Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) is a family of integrated packet routing and transport systems designed to help service providers capture their share of the IoE Value at Stake. NCS is built on major innovations in silicon, optics and software and provides the building blocks of a multilayer converged network that intelligently manages and scales functions across its architecture.
ACG Research analyzed the business case for NCS and found it achieves massive scale via multichassis system architecture, the density and performance of its new chip set, and the extension of the control plane to virtual machines (VM) internally and externally.
Disambiguating Advanced Computing for Humanities ResearchersBaden Hughes
The document discusses how advanced computing can enable new opportunities in data-intensive humanities research by providing computational capabilities beyond what is ordinarily available. It outlines the types of advanced computing including clusters, grids, and middleware. It also describes application execution models, interfaces to advanced computing resources, and how this can help humanities researchers answer old questions and discover new ones through computational analysis of large datasets.
This document discusses security issues in cloud computing. It begins by defining cloud computing and describing its service models and deployment models. It then identifies several key security issues in cloud computing, including security, privacy, reliability, lack of open standards, compliance, and concerns about long-term viability of data. Security is identified as the top challenge according to a survey of IT executives. The document argues that more must be done to address security, privacy, and other issues in order to fully realize the potential of cloud computing.
This document discusses security issues related to data location in cloud computing. It notes that cloud computing allows on-demand access to computing resources over the internet, but users often do not know where their data is physically stored or which country's laws govern the data. The research aims to develop a model for controlling data resources stored in cloud servers and implementing data manipulation techniques to protect data from unauthorized access across different country servers. The proposed action research methodology involves investigating how cloud vendors control customer data on cloud servers located in various jurisdictions.
This document provides a 3 paragraph summary of a seminar report on cloud computing submitted by Rahul Gupta to his professor Shraddha Khenka. The report acknowledges those who contributed to advancements in internet and computing technologies that enable cloud computing. It includes an introduction to cloud computing, comparisons to other technologies, economics of cloud computing, architectural layers, key features, deployment models, and issues. The summary covers the essential topics and information presented in the seminar report on cloud computing.
This document discusses the core concepts of cloud computing. It begins by explaining how cloud computing evolved from earlier technologies like mainframe computing, client-server systems, virtualization, distributed computing, and internet technologies. It then defines the key aspects of cloud computing models, including service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models (private, public, hybrid cloud). The document also outlines some of the core desired features of cloud computing like self-service, elasticity, metering and billing, and customization. Finally, it discusses some challenges and risks of cloud computing including security, privacy, trust issues as well as dependency on the cloud infrastructure.
A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO CLOUD TRAFFIC TRIBULATIONSijwscjournal
Cloud computing is generally believed to the most gifted technological revolution in computing and it will soon become an industry standard. It is believed that cloud will replace the traditional office setup. However a big question mark exists over the network performance when the cloud traffic explodes. We
call it “explosion” as in future we know that various cloud services replacing desktop computing will be accessed via cloud and the traffic increases exponentially. This journal aims at addressing some of these doubts better called “dangers” about the network performance, when cloud becomes a standard globally and providing a comprehensive solution to those problems. Our study concentrates on, that despite of offering better round-trip times and throughputs, cloud appears to consistently lose large amounts of the data that it is required to send to the clients. In this journal, we give a concise survey on the research efforts in this area. Our survey findings show that the networking research community has converged to the common understanding that a measurement infrastructure is insufficient for the optimal operation and future growth of the cloud. Despite many proposals on building an network measurement infrastructure from the research community, we believe that it will not be in the near future for such an
infrastructure to be fully deployed and operational, due to both the scale and the complexity of the network. We also suggest a set of technologies to identify and manage cloud traffic using IP header DS field, QoS protocols, MPLS/IP Header Compression, Use of high speed edge routers and cloud traffic flow measurement. In the solution DS Field of IP header will be used to recognize the cloud traffic separately, QOS protocols provide the cloud traffic, the type of QOS it requires by allocating resources and marking cloud traffic identification. Further the MPLS/IP Header Compression is performed so that the traffic can pass through the existing network efficiently and speedily. The solution also suggests deployment of high speed edge routers to improve network conditions and finally it suggest to measure the traffic flow using meters for better cloud network management. Our solutions assume that cloud is being assessed via basic public network.
A Comparison of Cloud Execution Mechanisms Fog, Edge, and Clone Cloud Computing IJECEIAES
Cloud computing is a technology that was developed a decade ago to provide uninterrupted, scalable services to users and organizations. Cloud computing has also become an attractive feature for mobile users due to the limited features of mobile devices. The combination of cloud technologies with mobile technologies resulted in a new area of computing called mobile cloud computing. This combined technology is used to augment the resources existing in Smart devices. In recent times, Fog computing, Edge computing, and Clone Cloud computing techniques have become the latest trends after mobile cloud computing, which have all been developed to address the limitations in cloud computing. This paper reviews these recent technologies in detail and provides a comparative study of them. It also addresses the differences in these technologies and how each of them is effective for organizations and developers.
An Investigation into Convergence of Networking and Storage Solutions Blesson Babu
This document discusses convergence of networking and storage solutions through technologies like software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). It investigates SDN and networked storage, how they can improve efficiency by reducing wasted capacity and simplifying management. The document also examines using SDN in a cloud computing environment to increase operational efficiency of data centers.
The document discusses how future networking is being impacted by cloud/hybrid IT, software-defined networking, and network functions virtualization. Specifically:
1) The emergence of public cloud and hybrid IT models is driving more traffic to data centers and changing expectations around network flexibility and costs.
2) Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions allow businesses more control over their networks by using overlays to connect sites over multiple networks like broadband internet and MPLS.
3) Network functions virtualization (NFV) enables network functions to be deployed as software, increasing flexibility and reducing costs compared to hardware appliances.
This document summarizes a proposed enhancement to the OpenStack Nova scheduler to incorporate network factors into virtual machine scheduling decisions. The current Nova scheduler only considers CPU, memory, and storage utilization when placing VMs, but not network utilization or connectivity. The proposed enhancement adds a network filter and weighting to Nova's filtering scheduler. It would check network interface status and bandwidth when initially placing VMs to ensure connectivity. It would also enable dynamic VM migration if a host's network card fails. This aims to optimize VM placement and improve performance by considering network factors.
How Should I Prepare Your Enterprise For The Increased...Claudia Brown
The document discusses different types of processor architectures: RISC, CISC, mainframe, and vector processors. It notes that each architecture has evolved over the years for different applications and purposes. Network processors in particular have evolved for networking applications. The document suggests that a comparative study of these architectures would provide insights into their relative strengths and weaknesses for various uses.
Load Balance in Data Center SDN Networks IJECEIAES
In the last two decades, networks had been changed according to the rapid changing in its requirements. The current Data Center Networks have large number of hosts (tens or thousands) with special needs of bandwidth as the cloud network and the multimedia content computing is increased. The conventional Data Center Networks (DCNs) are highlighted by the increased number of users and bandwidth requirements which in turn have many implementation limitations. The current networking devices with its control a nd forwarding planes coupling result in network architectures are not suitable for dynamic computing and storage needs. Software Defined networking (SDN) is introduced to change this notion of traditional networks by decoupling control and forwarding planes. So, due to the rapid increase in the number of applications, websites, storage space, and some of the network resources are being underutilized due to static routing mechanisms. To overcome these limitations, a Software Defined Network based Openflow Data Center network architecture is used to obtain better performance parameters and implementing traffic load balancing function. The load balancing distributes the traffic requests over the connected servers, to diminish network congestions, and reduce un derutilization problem of servers. As a result, SDN is developed to afford more effective configuration, enhanced performance, and more flexibility to deal with huge network designs.
Improving the Latency Value by Virtualizing Distributed Data Center and Auto...IOSR Journals
This document discusses improving latency in distributed cloud data centers through virtualization and automation. It begins by explaining the benefits of distributed over centralized data centers, such as lower latency and financial benefits from positioning services close to customers. Virtualizing data centers increases utilization and flexibility. Automation streamlines operations and provisioning. The document proposes using a virtual network with components like switches and virtual LANs to connect virtualized distributed data centers and improve latency. Automating configuration management avoids manual errors and complexity in managing dynamic cloud environments.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Ericsson Review: Software-Defined-NetworkingEricsson
An architecture based on software-defined networking (SDN) techniques gives operators greater freedom to balance operational and business parameters, such as network resilience, service performance and QoE against opex and capex. With its beginnings in data-center technology, software-defined networking (SDN) technology has developed to the point where it can offer significant opportunities to service providers.
The traditional way of describing network architecture and how a network behaves is through the fixed designs and behaviors of its various elements. The concept of software-defined networking (SDN) describes networks and how they behave in a more flexible way – through software tools that describe network elements in terms of programmable network states.
To maximize the potential benefits and deliver superior user experience, software-defined networking (SDN) needs to be implemented outside the sphere of the data center across the entire network. This can be achieved through enabling network programmability based on open APIs. Service Provider SDN will help operators to scale networks and take advantage of new revenue-generating possibilities.
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IRJET- Virtual Network Recognition and Optimization in SDN-Enabled Cloud Env...IRJET Journal
This document summarizes a research paper on virtual network recognition and optimization in an SDN-enabled cloud environment. The paper proposes using SDN and cloud computing technologies to increase the functionality and capacity of wireless networks. It formulates an online routing problem to maximize traffic flow over time while meeting constraints. A fast approximation algorithm is developed based on time-dependent duals. Extensive simulations show the algorithm outperforms heuristics by enabling end-to-end optimization and awareness of congestion and budgets. The paper concludes SDN is still emerging but highlights areas of expanding its scope and applications.
Learning-based Orchestrator for Intelligent Software-defined Networking Contr...ijseajournal
This paper presents an overview of our learning-based orchestrator for intelligent Open vSwitch that we
present this using Machine Learning in Software-Defined Networking technology. The first task consists of
extracting relevant information from the Data flow generated from a SDN and using them to learn, to
predict and to accurately identify the optimal destination OVS using Reinforcement Learning and QLearning Algorithm. The second task consists to select this using our hybrid orchestrator the optimal
Intelligent SDN controllers with Supervised Learning. Therefore, we propose as a solution using Intelligent
Software-Defined Networking controllers (SDN) frameworks, OpenFlow deployments and a new intelligent
hybrid Orchestration for multi SDN controllers. After that, we feeded these feature to a Convolutional
Neural Network model to separate the classes that we’re working on. The result was very promising the
model achieved an accuracy of 72.7% on a database of 16 classes. In any case, this paper sheds light to
researchers looking for the trade-offs between SDN performance and IA customization
LEARNING-BASED ORCHESTRATOR FOR INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING CONTR...ijseajournal
This paper presents an overview of our learning-based orchestrator for intelligent Open vSwitch that we present this using Machine Learning in Software-Defined Networking technology. The first task consists of extracting relevant information from the Data flow generated from a SDN and using them to learn, to predict and to accurately identify the optimal destination OVS using Reinforcement Learning and QLearning Algorithm. The second task consists to select this using our hybrid orchestrator the optimal
Intelligent SDN controllers with Supervised Learning. Therefore, we propose as a solution using Intelligent
Software-Defined Networking controllers (SDN) frameworks, OpenFlow deployments and a new intelligent
hybrid Orchestration for multi SDN controllers. After that, we feeded these feature to a Convolutional Neural Network model to separate the classes that we’re working on. The result was very promising the model achieved an accuracy of 72.7% on a database of 16 classes. In any case, this paper sheds light to
researchers looking for the trade-offs between SDN performance and IA customization.
Contemporary Energy Optimization for Mobile and Cloud Environmentijceronline
Cloud and mobile computing applications are increasing heavily in terms of usage. These two areas extending usability of systems. This review paper gives information about cloud and mobile applications in terms of resources they consume and the need of choosing variety of features for users from several locations and the evolutionary provisions for service provider and end users. Both the fields are combined to provide good functionality, efficiency and effectiveness with mobile phones. The enhancement by considering power consumption by means of resource constrained nature of devices, communication media and cost effectiveness. This paper discuss about the concepts related to power consumption, underlying protocols and the other performance issues
OpenStack is open-source software for building private and public clouds. It provides services for compute, storage, and networking (networking projects allow resources to be shared across clouds). Using OpenStack can help enterprises reduce costs compared to vendor lock-in agreements and manage large server clusters, storage, and networks more efficiently.
This document discusses improving latency in distributed cloud data centers through virtualization and automation. It begins by introducing the benefits of distributed data centers over centralized ones, such as lower latency and reduced costs. It then discusses how virtualizing data centers allows more dynamic resource sharing and improves flexibility. Automating operations further reduces costs and complexity. The document proposes building virtual distributed data centers connected by networks optimized for low latency. Automating configuration management helps adapt rapidly to dynamic cloud environments. Overall, virtualizing distributed data centers and automating operations can improve latency and reduce costs in cloud computing.
Container ecosystem based PaaS solution for Telco Cloud Analysis and ProposalKrishna-Kumar
This document discusses the growing adoption of container-based platforms as a service (PaaS) solutions in the telecommunications industry. It notes that traditional virtual machine-based network function virtualization and software defined networking solutions are facing scalability issues. Container technologies are poised to help telcos deploy network functions and applications more efficiently at scale. The document proposes a container-based telco app orchestration mechanism using Apache Mesos to deploy containers adhering to quality of service requirements. Overall, the shift to container-based approaches can help telcos overcome limitations of current virtualization methods and better optimize resource utilization.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing. It begins with definitions of cloud computing and discusses concepts like service-oriented architecture, cyber infrastructure, and virtualization. It describes different types of cloud architectures like public, private and hybrid clouds. It outlines the key components of cloud computing including cloud types, virtualization, and users. It discusses how cloud computing works and reviews the merits and demerits. Finally, it concludes that cloud computing allows for more efficient use of IT resources and flexible access to computing power and data from any internet-connected device.
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EDGE CONTROLLER PLACEMENT FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKSijcsit
Nowadays, Fog architecture or Edge architecture is becoming a popular research trend to distribute a
substantial amount of computing resources, data processing and resource management at the extreme edge
of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Industrial communication is a research track in next generation
wireless sensor networks for the fourth revolution in the industrial process. Adopting fog architecture into
Industrial communication systems is a promising technology within sensor networks architecture. With
Software Defined Network (SDN) architecture, in this paper, we address edge controller placement as an
optimization problem with the objective of more robustness while minimizing the delay of network
management and the associated synchronization overhead. The optimization problem is provided and
modelled as submodular function. Two algorithms are provided to find the optimal solution using a real
wireless network to get more realistic results. Greedy Algorithm and Connectivity Ranking Algorithm are
provided. Greedy algorithm outperforms connectivity ranking algorithm to find the optimum balance
between the different metrics. Also, based on the network operator preference, the number of edge
controllers to be placed will be provided. This research paper plays a great role in standardization of
softwarization into Industrial communication systems for next generation wireless sensor networks.
Nowadays, Fog architecture or Edge architecture is becoming a popular research trend to distribute a
substantial amount of computing resources, data processing and resource management at the extreme edge
of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Industrial communication is a research track in next generation
wireless sensor networks for the fourth revolution in the industrial process. Adopting fog architecture into
Industrial communication systems is a promising technology within sensor networks architecture. With
Software Defined Network (SDN) architecture, in this paper, we address edge controller placement as an
optimization problem with the objective of more robustness while minimizing the delay of network
management and the associated synchronization overhead. The optimization problem is provided and
modelled as submodular function. Two algorithms are provided to find the optimal solution using a real
wireless network to get more realistic results. Greedy Algorithm and Connectivity Ranking Algorithm are
provided. Greedy algorithm outperforms connectivity ranking algorithm to find the optimum balance
between the different metrics. Also, based on the network operator preference, the number of edge
controllers to be placed will be provided. This research paper plays a great role in standardization of
softwarization into Industrial communication systems for next generation wireless sensor networks.
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Multi-Layer Digital Validation of Candidate Service Appointment with Digital ...IJCNCJournal
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Multi-Layer Digital Validation of Candidate Service Appointment with Digital Signature and Bio-Metric Authentication Approach
Authors
Saikat Bose1, Tripti Arjariya1, Anirban Goswami2, Soumit Chowdhury3, 1Bhabha University, India, 2Techno Main Salt Lake, Sec – V, India, 3Government College of Engineering & Ceramic Technology, India
Abstract
Proposed work promotes a unique data security protocol for validating candidate’s service appointment. Process initiated with concealment of private share within the first segment of each region of the e-letter at commission’s server. This is governed by hash operations determining circular orientation of private share fragments and their hosted matrix intervals. Signed e-letter downloaded at the posted place is validated through same hash operations and public share. Candidate’s on spot taken fingerprint are concealed in two segments for each region of the eletter adopting similar hiding strategies. The copyright signature of posting place is similarly shielded on fourth segment of each region using hash operations. The certified e-letter is thoroughly validated at commission’s server and signatures stored justify authenticity of appointment and proper candidature at the posting place. The superior test results from wider angles establishes the efficacy of the proposed protocol over the existing approaches.
Keywords
Dynamic Authentication, Standard-Deviation Based Encoding, Variable Encoding, Multi-Signature Hiding, Random Signature Dispersing.
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An Hybrid Framework OTFS-OFDM Based on Mobile Speed EstimationIJCNCJournal
The Future wireless communication systems face the challenging task of simultaneously providing high-quality service (QoS) and broadband data transmission, while also minimizing power consumption, latency, and system complexity. Although Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has been widely adopted in 4G and 5G systems, it struggles to cope with a significant delay and Doppler spread in high mobility scenarios. To address these challenges, a novel waveform named Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS). Designers aim to outperform OFDM by closely aligning signals with the channel behaviour. In this paper, we propose a switching strategy that empowers operators to select the most appropriate waveform based on an estimated speed of the mobile user. This strategy enables the base station to dynamically choose the waveform that best suits the mobile user’s speed. Additionally, we suggest retaining an Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) radar approach for accurate Doppler estimation. This provides precise information to facilitate the waveform selection procedure. By leveraging the switching strategy and harnessing the Doppler estimation capabilities of an ISAC radar.Our proposed approach aims to enhance the performance of wireless communication systems in high mobility cases. Considering the complexity of waveform processing, we introduce an optimized hybrid system that combines OTFS and OFDM, resulting in reduced complexity while still retaining performance benefits.This hybrid system presents a promising solution for improving the performance of wireless communication systems in higher mobility.The simulation results validate the effectiveness of our approach, demonstrating its potential advantages for future wireless communication systems. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated by simulation results as it will be illustrated.
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Scope & Topics
The International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) is a bi monthly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of Computer Networks & Communications. The journal focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Computer Networks & data Communications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on advanced networking concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
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• Network Protocols & Wireless Networks
• Network Architectures
• High speed networks
• Routing, switching and addressing techniques
• Next Generation Internet
• Next Generation Web Architectures
• Network Operations & management
• Adhoc and sensor networks
• Internet and Web applications
• Ubiquitous networks
• Mobile networks & Wireless LAN
• Wireless Multimedia systems
• Wireless communications
• Heterogeneous wireless networks
• Measurement & Performance Analysis
• Peer to peer and overlay networks
• QoS and Resource Management
• Network Based applications
• Network Security
• Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
• Optical Networking
• Mobile & Broadband Wireless Internet
• Recent trends & Developments in Computer Networks
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Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation w...IJCNCJournal
Paper Title
Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation with Hybrid Beam Forming Power Transfer in WSN-IoT Applications
Authors
Reginald Jude Sixtus J and Tamilarasi Muthu, Puducherry Technological University, India
Abstract
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) helps to overcome various difficulties in future technology wireless communications. NOMA, when utilized with millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel estimation becomes extremely difficult. For reaping the benefits of the NOMA and mm-Wave combination, effective channel estimation is required. In this paper, we propose an enhanced particle swarm optimization based long short-term memory estimator network (PSOLSTMEstNet), which is a neural network model that can be employed to forecast the bandwidth required in the mm-Wave MIMO network. The prime advantage of the LSTM is that it has the capability of dynamically adapting to the functioning pattern of fluctuating channel state. The LSTM stage with adaptive coding and modulation enhances the BER.PSO algorithm is employed to optimize input weights of LSTM network. The modified algorithm splits the power by channel condition of every single user. Participants will be first sorted into distinct groups depending upon respective channel conditions, using a hybrid beamforming approach. The network characteristics are fine-estimated using PSO-LSTMEstNet after a rough approximation of channels parameters derived from the received data.
Keywords
Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Bit Error Rate (BER), mm-Wave, MIMO, NOMA, deep learning, optimization.
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June 2024 - Top 10 Read Articles in Computer Networks & CommunicationsIJCNCJournal
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Enhanced Traffic Congestion Management with Fog Computing - A Simulation-Base...IJCNCJournal
Abstract: Accurate latency computation is essential for the Internet of Things (IoT) since the connected
devices generate a vast amount of data that is processed on cloud infrastructure. However, the cloud is not
an optimal solution. To overcome this issue, fog computing is used to enable processing at the edge while
still allowing communication with the cloud. Many applications rely on fog computing, including traffic
management. In this paper, an Intelligent Traffic Congestion Mitigation System (ITCMS) is proposed to
address traffic congestion in heavily populated smart cities. The proposed system is implemented using fog
computing and tested in a crowdedCairo city. The results obtained indicate that the execution time of the
simulation is 4,538 seconds, and the delay in the application loop is 49.67 seconds. The paper addresses
various issues, including CPU usage, heap memory usage, throughput, and the total average delay, which
are essential for evaluating the performance of the ITCMS. Our system model is also compared with other
models to assess its performance. A comparison is made using two parameters, namely throughput and the
total average delay, between the ITCMS, IOV (Internet of Vehicle), and STL (Seasonal-Trend
Decomposition Procedure based on LOESS). Consequently, the results confirm that the proposed system
outperforms the others in terms of higher accuracy, lower latency, and improved traffic efficiency.
Call for Papers -International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications ...IJCNCJournal
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Scope & Topics
The International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) is a bi monthly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of Computer Networks & Communications. The journal focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Computer Networks & data Communications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on advanced networking concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Authors are solicited to contribute to this journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the Computer Networks & Communications.
Topics of Interest
· Network Protocols & Wireless Networks
· Network Architectures
· High speed networks
· Routing, switching and addressing techniques
· Next Generation Internet
· Next Generation Web Architectures
· Network Operations & management
· Adhoc and sensor networks
· Internet and Web applications
· Ubiquitous networks
· Mobile networks & Wireless LAN
· Wireless Multimedia systems
· Wireless communications
· Heterogeneous wireless networks
· Measurement & Performance Analysis
· Peer to peer and overlay networks
· QoS and Resource Management
· Network Based applications
· Network Security
· Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
· Optical Networking
· Mobile & Broadband Wireless Internet
· Recent trends & Developments in Computer Networks
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· Notification : July 22, 2024
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Rendezvous Sequence Generation Algorithm for Cognitive Radio Networks in Post...IJCNCJournal
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CONTAINERIZED SERVICES ORCHESTRATION FOR EDGE COMPUTING IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED WIDE AREA NETWORKS
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DOI: 10.5121/ijcnc.2019.11507 113
CONTAINERIZED SERVICES ORCHESTRATION FOR
EDGE COMPUTING IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED WIDE
AREA NETWORKS
Felipe Rodriguez Yaguache and Kimmo Ahola
5G Networks & Beyond, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Espoo, Finland
ABSTRACT
As SD-WAN disrupts legacy WAN technologies and becomes the preferred WAN technology adopted by
corporations, and Kubernetes becomes the de-facto container orchestration tool, the opportunities for
deploying edge-computing containerized applications running over SD-WAN are vast. Service
orchestration in SD-WAN has not been provided with enough attention, resulting in the lack of research
focused on service discovery in these scenarios. In this article, an in-house service discovery solution that
works alongside Kubernetes’ master node for allowing improved traffic handling and better user
experience when running micro-services is developed. The service discovery solution was conceived
following a design science research approach. Our research includes the implementation of a proof-of-
concept SD-WAN topology alongside a Kubernetes cluster that allows us to deploy custom services and
delimit the necessary characteristics of our in-house solution. Also, the implementation's performance is
tested based on the required times for updating the discovery solution according to service updates.
Finally, some conclusions and modifications are pointed out based on the results, while also discussing
possible enhancements.
KEYWORDS
SD-WAN, Edge computing, Virtualization, Kubernetes, Containers, Services
1. INTRODUCTION
Virtualization is the cornerstone of the Internet and the cloud-based services, it has evolved from
a cost-saving solution to the technology capable of providing the required agility and flexibility
needed for service delivery in data centers as well as the infrastructure supporting business-
essential applications. The main goal of virtualization is the optimization of IT assets, helping in
achieving a superior system utilization, cost reduction, and ease of deployment and management
by allowing multiple operating system images to run in parallel using only one piece of hardware.
Container-based virtualization and Virtual Machines (VMs) are perhaps the most common types
of virtualization, although there are many differences among them, they both have the necessity
to communicate within an IP network. Before the execution of a container or VM, they need to be
assigned IP and MAC addresses. When these virtualized entities are assigned IP addresses, the
traditional Ethernet and IP networks are stretched to exist inside the physical hosts located in data
centers, not only between them. Virtualization alongside cloud-computing supposes a challenge
in the application of traffic engineering for maximizing the utilization of the available
conventional networks [1].
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Traditional communication networks are distributed systems with multiple routing algorithms
running over many different devices such as routers and switches. Every single one of these
devices possesses its own configuration and state and must be configured separately, which
makes networks difficult and expensive to maintain and migrate. Software-Defined Networking
(SDN) tackles this issue through the separation of the control plane from the data plane. This is
achieved by moving the control logic of the network to a centralized controller, transforming the
switches into mere forwarding devices that follow the rules set by the controller. By centralizing
the control logic, configuration and maintenance ease, with new features being able to be
deployed much faster as well. A centralized control has information regarding the whole network,
being able to optimize the available network resources. SDN is therefore widely spread among
data centers, especially in order to cope with the virtualization and cloud-computing related issue
[1].
Edge computing has arisen as a new approach that alongside SDN could be able to offer a
solution to network optimization in cloud environments. This new perspective is nothing more
than reducing the number of processes running in the centralized cloud and moving them to
locally available edge servers. However, as data processing power is moving towards the edge of
a network in the form of containers instead of remaining in a cloud or data center, migration is
also occurring for services or applications. This trend requires the usage of processing power
from devices that are not capable of being constantly connected to the network, this is the case of
laptops, smartphones, wireless sensors, etc. The more this approach is adopted, the more
businesses think their Wide Area Networks (WANs) are not prepared to carry such a burden,
especially when taking into account traditional corporate WANs. Such networks are built by
backhauling routed services and Internet traffic throughout the main office, which can cause
performance issues when combined with edge computing. It is obvious that traditional
approaches lack the agility and flexibility to achieve the required performance and availability
needed by edge computing [2].
Edge computing’s adoption arises awareness regarding a substantial change in traffic patterns.
The changes in traffic patterns are directly related to the increase in the number of host devices
connected in every branch, the major drivers for this increase come from: the number of
connected devices per employee, number of end-point devices (for example IoT equipment, WiFi
access points, etc.) and extra applications that comprise a collection of services provided to
customers (guest WiFi, artificial reality, etc.), which are known as "micro-services". The
complexity of dealing with multiple hosts raises demand for new management tools, in other
words, orchestration. Orchestration automates the management and/or organization of systems or
services while reducing errors introduced by personnel involvement in tasks such as provisioning
or scaling. Container orchestration is expected to be present in almost all the service deployments
in the near future through its massive adoption by companies and startups. Its merge with the SD-
WAN technology is still to happen, making SD-WAN adopters unable to obtain the most out of
their investments [16].
1.1. Methodology
In this work, we propose a simple service discovery system that will improve bandwidth usage
when accessing containerized services over a SD-WAN environment. This work was performed
in three main steps that include: the selection of use cases and design of the SD-WAN topology, a
testbed implementation for the observation of data flow that will allow us to identify the required
behavior of our service discovery, and results analysis focusing on a user experience approach.
The first step takes into account the limited amount of research aiming at the merge of edge
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computing, SD-WAN and container orchestration. A literature survey required to fully
understand the functioning and requirements of SD-WAN networks is carried out covering
existing solutions and projects as well as the role of an orchestrator in such implementation. The
same step is applied for Kubernetes, in order to fully understand the usage of its API solution and
all its constituent parts. The envisioned use cases cover scenarios applicable on an enterprise level
and the topology is conceived to simulate the Internet (i.e. a distributed network). The second
step comprises the simulation of the aforementioned network topology in order to provide the
experiment with a real-life WAN environment. This allows the deployment of in-house
containerized services and testing of bandwidth usage and request redirection when performing
container orchestration. In the final step, the implementation is compared against commercial
solutions and validated based on discovery and convergence times, the whole system will be
examined looking for problems and limitations that shall be discussed so improvements can be
proposed.
1.2. Related work
A few works have somehow dive into service discovery orchestration in SDN networks. In [10]
Jarraya et al. analyzed the importance of computing and storage orchestration alongside
networking resources as a quite important part in SDN, while also taking into account the lack of
research that aims at easing the creation and deployment of network services. In [11] Kreutz et al.
identify computing infrastructure and networking challenges, presenting a series of constraints
that must be overcome in order to improve efficiency by means of network orchestration. The
aforementioned works focus on cloud computing resource orchestration on a data center
environment having and underlying SDN network. In [12], Taleb et al. discuss the role of service
orchestration in the success of Multi-access Edge Computing environment, but this mainly
focuses on the orchestration of networking resources and containerized services orchestration is
not explored. This paper has been adapted from [17], which was delivered for the 8th
International Conference on Cloud Computing: Services and Architecture (CLOUD 2019). The
present document focuses on the discovery of deployed containerized services, indirectly
achieving a slight improvement in the usage of network resources performing orchestration
between a container orchestrator and the in-house service discovery.
1.3. Structure
This paper is organized as follows: In section 2 we define our use case and the network topology
that will be simulated. In section 3, a summary of the implementation is presented as well as of
every constituent part of the system. Finally, in section 4 we perform a brief comparison between
the constituent parts of Kubernetes and the developed solution, define the parameters for carrying
out measurements, the results and their corresponding discussion are also presented.
2. USE CASE
With SD-WAN being the natural extension of SDN and Kubernetes becoming the de-facto
container orchestrator, the possible use cases for an Edge Computing case are high in number. In
the proposed use case, a Kubernetes master node will be deployed in a company’s Central Office
(CO) alongside the suggested orchestrator that will be aware of the changes happening in the
Kubernetes cluster and will react accordingly. The development of this orchestrator will enable
the possibility of deploying container workloads on remote branch locations and, at the same
time, facilitating access towards its services by properly discovering the nodes containing them.
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In Figure 1, the proposed topology including the high-level required 5G network for allowing the
implementation of local breakout is depicted.
The advent of internet-connected endpoint devices that are commonly not associated with internet
and possess a unique identity is known as Internet of Things (IoT). Edge computing and SD-
WAN enable the deployment of workloads that can be of an almost infinite variety, all of them
focusing on the processing of IoT generated data. The use cases this work will focus comprises
(but is not limited to) the following: smart web pages, authentication applications and the already
mentioned IoT data processing. Each of these use cases has different requirements and setups.
The smart web page can possess three main components, a front-end, a web application, and the
logic, each of these three components can be deployed in different Kubernetes workers while the
Kubernetes master performs load balancing. Network requirements will be low latency and
dynamic route adaptation in case a Kubernetes worker is replaced or moved. The authentication
application can be deployed into one remote branch, then all authentication queries coming from
closer branches will be redirected towards it instead of going to the CO, this will require the
discovery of the closest node running the authentication application.
Figure 1. Use case topology
Finally, for IoT data processing use case, data generated by sensors located in a remote branch
can be stored in the corresponding Kubernetes worker, while the data processing unit can be
deployed in a different worker node. The massive amount of traffic generated by sending and
receiving raw data as well as processed data should not be directed through Kubernetes master
node in the central office unless it is strictly necessary. The need of dynamic, external service
discovery is evident. Although SD-WAN is just starting to be adopted, the integration with
Kubernetes will ease the deployment of applications and provide an improvement in the user
experience. Due to the lack of commercial solutions that provide Kubernetes service discovery in
a SD-WAN environment at the moment of writing this document, the proposed paradigm can be
further developed as a viable business idea.
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3. IMPLEMENTATION
The testbed for the orchestrator proof-of-concept was implemented as three interconnected virtual
machines running on a Linux server located at VTT Espoo premises and having Ubuntu 18.04
LTS as host operating system. Each of the aforementioned virtual entities plays a different role:
SD-WAN network simulation, Kubernetes master node and Kubernetes worker node. This
chapter will give a complete in-depth description of every entity forming the testbed, taking into
account the complexity of the final system.
First, we have the SD-WAN network simulation virtual machine. This entity contains the
OpenFlow speaking SDN controller as well as all the Mininet simulated gateways and hosts,
providing an underlying physical network. Gateways are connected through a set of Open
vSwitch virtual switches that emulate the Internet; the protocol used for the communication
between these gateways is BGP, which was implemented by using Quagga [3]. Each of the
gateways represents a corporation’s branch office, which is perfectly capable of hosting a
Kubernetes master or worker node and the services deployed on them. The SDN controller runs
on ONOS [4], for this thesis the version of ONOS used is 14. ONOS controller is deployed by
using Docker alongside ATOMIX for supporting the creation of extra ONOS instances,
effectively forming a cluster. [5]. ONOS is a controller written in Java and offers high modularity
in the form of a wide variety of applications that can be activated depending on the developer’s
needs [4].
The SDN controller runs on the virtual machine and the gateways communicate with it through
the main BGP speaker that is located at the main office. An ATOMIX cluster consisting of three
nodes is used for relieving the ONOS instances from cluster management, service discovery and
data storage functions. The created ATOMIX cluster is configured through a JSON configuration
file describing each constituent node. This configuration file includes information regarding each
node’s discovery and communication methods, management partition configuration and storage
and replication partition configuration. In this work, the discovery protocol specified is Raft,
ONOS entities are not listed during the discovery configuration due to the connection between
ATOMIX and ONOS being of a client-server type. Raft was also used in ONOS’s former releases
for cluster formation; however, it requires strict cluster membership information in order to
successfully form a cluster. With the adoption of ATOMIX as a separate cluster using Raft, all
the ONOS nodes can easily discover peers by using dynamic discovery mechanisms, supporting
the failure of all by one node [5].
Next, we have the Kubernetes master node virtual machine. The master node is connected to one
of the gateways through a Linux bridge created for this solely purpose; the virtual interface
located on the SD-WAN virtual machine is loaded to Mininet, therefore simulating a direct
connection. To successfully deploy the master node, kubeadm, kubelet and kubectl alongside
Docker must be installed in the virtual machine. The master node is not a single entity, it is the
result of a combination of a group of pods, each of them having a specific function. Each of the
pods that conform the master will have one or more containers that are created using Docker,
among them, the Container Network Interface (cni). The cni will provide an IP address to every
single one of the created pods and is also in charge of the whole networking for the pod network,
including the internal DNS service. Once the master node is ready, the gateway to which it is
attached will serve as a gateway for both, a host machine and the master node. Host machines
connect remotely to the master and create pods, deployments or expose services, although this is
not straightforward. The security certificates must be copied to the host machine first, among the
copied files there is the configuration archive containing the master’s IP address and port number,
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allowing kubectl command to know the right destination of its queries. Due to security reasons,
the master node will not be scheduled any pod and only a limited, selected number of hosts are
able to access the cluster to deploy or delete services.
Finally, there is the Kubernetes worker node virtual machine. In the same way as the master node,
the worker node is attached to a gateway through a Linux bridge and the corresponding virtual
interface in the SD-WAN virtual machine is also loaded to Mininet. Configuration required for
this node is quite minimalist in comparison with what is required for the master node, although
kubeadm, kubelet, kubectl and Docker must also be installed. At least in the beginning, the
worker node will not run as many pods as the master node, as most of the required services are
handled by the master node. Through the use of labels, pods can be scheduled to the worker node,
which allows a better resource usage, taking into account that Docker containers are not created
in the master node but in the worker node. Worker node’s pods are also assigned an IP address
inside the specified pod-cidr-range by the cni. In this work, the separation of the conforming
entities into different virtual machines, was done with solely purpose of increasing the isolation
between running software, specially conflicts between Kubernetes and Docker. Considering a
dockerized version of ONOS is used, any issue affecting the performance of Docker would hinder
any effort carried out while building the proof-of-concept testbed.
3.1. Domain name system (DNS)
Kubernetes schedules a DNS pod and service in the master node to individual containers by
resolving a DNS name to its corresponding IP address, therefore directing their requests to the
proper node. When a service is created in the cluster, it is assigned a DNS name, which will be
used by a client pod during its queries in both, the client’s pod namespace as well as the cluster’s
default domain. As an example of the DNS principles in Kubernetes, we can imagine a service
called “Hello-world” scheduled in the namespace “kuber-system”, a query coming from a pod
also located in “kuber-system” must only ask for Hello-world. On the other hand, a pod running
in namespace “test-system” must look up for the service with a query for hello-world.kuber-
system [6].
This scenario represents the behavior of the internal DNS, this means that only entities belonging
to the Kubernetes cluster will be able to take advantage of it. In the proposed smart branch
scenario, most of the requests will come from hosts located outside the cluster, they cannot make
use of this internal DNS service. For connecting to services from outside the cluster, Kubernetes
offers three solutions: accessing services through a public IP, accessing services through the
Proxy Verb, and accessing the services from a node or pod in the cluster. The first option requires
the use of the NodePort or a load balancer service type, the service will be exposed either on the
internet or limited to a corporate network. Its limitations rely on the fact that a request to the
service will be performed using the syntax <master/worker node ip>:NodePort, making it
necessary for the end user to know the node’s IP address. A query sent to the master node will
produce another request heading from the master node towards the worker, creating an
unnecessary overhead [7]. Next, we have the Proxy Verb. This solution works exclusively for
HTTP/HTTPS services and may cause issues with some web services; it also performs some
authentication and authorization at apiserver level before granting access to the service. The last
option is to access a service using a pod or node. It must be taken into account that although some
nodes or pods might be accessed in this way, this is a nonstandard method, and the environment
varies depending on the host, some tools might or might not be installed. Neither of the
aforementioned methods is viable from the end user’s perspective, being either too complex of
posing a security risk for the company when exposing IP addresses of nodes containing vital
services [7].
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To overcome the aforementioned IP sharing issue, an external DNS service, written in python,
was conceived. Every gateway in the SD-WAN virtual machine will run its DNS server, the
service is bound to the interface heading towards the host subnetwork and listening on port 53.
The server will load the zones from a .txt file containing the zone entries regarding all the
available Kubernetes worker nodes, the DNS names for worker nodes have been formed by
adding the node’s name and a predetermined suffix. Hosts will access the available services
located at the closest node under the entry “vtt.kubernetes.services”. The remote non-local
available services will have entries that correspond to their respective worker node name
followed by the suffix “.kubernetes.services”. As an example, let us assume a cluster with two
worker nodes worker1 and worker2. As an example, hosts located closer to worker1will posses a
zone file as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Custom DNS entries for hosts close to worker1.
By making use of this service, whatever host is connected to the corporate network, close to
worker1 will be able to access the services located in the node by making a request to
<vtt.kubernetes.services>:<NodePort>, and services in worker2 by using
<worker2.kubernetes.services>:<NodePort> saving efforts of sharing the IP address of any node
in the cluster or limiting access for only certain types of traffic. When a host located behind one
of the gateways sends a query for certain services, the request will not go to the master node, but
instead will go directly to the worker node running the service, as it can be appreciated in Figure
3, where the dashed lines represent a normal request, going through the master node. The
continuous lines represent a direct request, enabled by the orchestrator, performed towards the
worker node. This approach avoids the overhead of sending a request to the master and it sends
another request to the worker node on behalf of the host. A python based DNS server was
preferred at this stage due to the simplicity of using a .txt file for loading zones, being able to
format the zones at will, and the easiness of making changes and binding the server to any IP
address or interface without the need to install, stop or restart a service. However, solutions like
bind 9 would definitely be a preferred option on a production environment.
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Figure 3. Requests sent by a host.
3.2. Reverse proxy service
Traditionally, when putting an application server on a network, attackers may exploit the
underlying vulnerabilities of the available services. Although this is not the case when using
containerized services, security is still something we all must be concerned about. In production
environments a security measure is to deny internet access inside a corporate branch and instead
use a proxy server. A proxy service is the one attending requests from a web browser and it can
be used to bypass security restrictions, on the other hand, a reverse proxy service is used by a web
server and has the advantage of enabling load-balancing. Containerized Nginx is the open source
solution web server used in this work due to its user-friendly configuration and the ability of
handling a great number of connections with a significantly less overhead than its counterparts.
The idea behind this implementation is reducing to the minimum the amount of requirements
needed for running the worker nodes, installing Nginx on them would have for sure undermined
this principle as every worker joining the cluster would need to have Nginx installed before being
able to serve its purpose.
On the other hand, a normal Kubernetes Nginx service running in the cluster would have been
limited to internal requests due to the lack of an “external-ip” not being granted to bare metal
Kubernetes load-balancers, and which only work with Kubernetes implementations running on
IaaS such as GCP, AWS, or Azure. MetalLB [8] is the load balancer-implementation selected for
supporting the reverse proxy service and enables a layer 2 load-balancing through the creation of
a controller and speaker deployments on every node it is running. Nginx entities are deployed one
per worker node on top of MetalLB, receiving the worker’s node IP address as their external-ip,
enabling a reverse proxy behavior for requests coming from outside hosts towards port 80 and
creating a corresponding Nginx pod. The need for the NodePort on the end user’s side has been
avoided. Instead of this, the “location” command in Nginx is being used to redirect users to the
right HTTP service based on service’s name. As an example, let us consider the Nginx
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configuration file for a worker node called worker1 that is running a service called “hello-world”
and a worker node called worker2 running a service called “my-app”. From the view of worker1,
a host close to worker1 will use the entry <vtt.kubernetes.services> for accessing services located
in worker1, and an entry in the form <worker2.kubernetes.services> for all the other remote
nodes, in this case a node called worker2. For avoiding the usage of NodePort corresponding to
“hello-world” service, this Nginx configuration file will enable the adding of “/hello-world/” to
the requested URL for accessing this service, via the location command. For a host whose closest
node is worker1, the request’s URL is now in the form “vtt.kubernetes.services/hello-world/”
when accessing this service located in worker1, for accessing the service “my-app” in worker2,
the request’s URL would be “worker2.kubernetes.services/my-app/”. Figure 4 shows the example
Nginx configuration file for worker1.
Figure 4. Nginx configuration file for worker1.
By adding a comparison including the URL of the request to contain the string
“.kubernetes.services” the access from remote hosts to the service is guaranteed. Hosts might not
know what services are available or the names of the remote worker nodes, therefore, a request
heading towards “vtt.kubernetes.services/help/” will deploy a html list of available services in the
closest node as well as in the remote nodes and their corresponding URI. As it has been
mentioned before, pods and services are not static, they are prone to being deleted or changed.
Because of this, the Nginx configuration files located in every worker node must be updated
dynamically as services are being added or deleted, and the Nginx service in its corresponding
pod must be reloaded when these changes occur in its worker node.
3.3. Master node service discovery
As explained in the previous sections, the zone files used in the external DNS service as well as
the Nginx configuration files cannot be static. A master node service discovery is therefore
necessary for the continuous update of all zone files in the gateways running the external DNS
service, as well as for the service location updates in the Nginx pod running in every worker
node. The service discovery works based on the principle that deployment and services’
containers are not created at the master node, but at worker nodes. Kubernetes does not provide a
default way of associating a certain service with the scheduled worker node, therefore, knowing
the pods running on a determined worker node alongside the list of all available services in the
cluster provides a way to start a service-node matching. Before performing the matching, the
pods output must be filtered in order to avoid cluster management related pods to be counted as
services, pods such as calico, Nginx or the MetalLB’s controller and speaker must not be
included. The discovery starts when all the available worker nodes and their corresponding IP
addresses are obtained as an array using the Kubernetes API. The node array structure
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corresponds to a node’s name followed by its IP address; therefore, worker’s node names will
always be located in an even index within the array, with their respective IP addresses located at
the subsequent, odd position. Next, for every node in existence, we obtain the running pods and
all the available services in the whole cluster.
During the first iteration and for every single node, the current amount of running pods is saved
within an associative array, the next step is to create the zones files, creating and copying the
Nginx configuration to the corresponding pod as well as reloading the Nginx service and sending
the zones file to the respective routers. For copying files into the Nginx pods, kubectl tool is used,
thus avoiding the creation of extra communication channels between the master and the worker
nodes. The service discovery supports dynamically adding new worker nodes to the cluster, those
new members will be automatically detected and after deploying a new MetalLB controller and
speaker entity in the node alongside the Nginx service, the worker node will be ready for being
scheduled pods.
During the subsequent iterations, the number of the obtained pods per worker node is compared
against the values previously saved in the associative array, if there is a change in one of the
values, then the discovery service can identify if a service might have been added, moved or
deleted. After this, it deletes the current worker node’s zones file and Nginx configuration to
create new files with updated information. The Nginx service corresponding to the worker node
where a change occurred is reloaded and the zone files are sent to the respective routers, these
actions only occur in the nodes where a service was added or deleted leaving the unchanged
nodes working continuously without any disruption. The service discovery was conceived in a
way that no extra efforts such as copying master’s certificates or installing extra software is
necessary for a given worker node when joining the cluster, only the compulsory kubeadm,
kubectl, kubelet and Docker are required. Being written in Bash script language, portability is
assured as no modifications are required for running it in any Unix-like operating system. It is
worth noting that due to actions being taken only in the worker nodes where a change has
occurred, sending the DNS zones files will happen only once per change, a detail that helps in
reducing the bandwidth use due to the lack of continuous advertisement. Another reason behind
this behavior is the fact that the content of a zone file are mere URLs and their corresponding IP
addresses, which are not prone to change, and if they do, this does not happen quite often. In
Figure 5, a high-level version of the discovery algorithm used for the master service discovery is
shown.
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Figure 5. Service discovery algorithm.
3.4. Service update system
The updated zones file generated at the master node must be sent to the gateways that are running
the external DNS service. For this purpose, a Mosquitto [9] broker working in bridge mode was
set up on the master node listening on port 1883. Mosquitto was selected due to it being a
lightweight publish/subscribe transport protocol, its capability of coping with unreliable
networks, and most important, its reduced bandwidth consumption. A MQTT publisher was
implemented using the paho-mqtt python library, and set up on the CO. This publisher reads the
whole zones file, transforms it into an array of bytes and publishes it under a determined topic.
On the other hand, the border gateways running the external DNS service have a MQTT
subscriber running, they subscribe to the determined topic and save the received array of bytes as
an .txt file. After the file is saved, the subscriber will reload the DNS service running in the
worker node. By default, MQTT does not provide encryption, however, security can be enforced
by using a username/password scheme or certificate authentication using the TLS protocol, with
the latter being the most practical and secure option. The usage of the TLS protocol in MQTT
requires the creation of the respective key pairs and certificates for both the broker and the
clients.
The aforementioned constituent parts of the orchestrator are distributed on the underlying
network as shown in Figure 6.
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Figure 6. Testing network topology and the services running.
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4. COMPARISON AND TESTING
Three major components of the proof-of-concept are the external DNS running on every gateway
in the network, the Proxy service that is deployed in all the Kubernetes worker nodes and the
service discovery that runs on the Kubernetes master node. These entities have their
corresponding counterparts called kube-dns and kube-proxy. Although kube-dns and kube-proxy
perform tasks only inside the Kubernetes cluster, their behavior is similar to those used in the
proof-of-concept and therefore, can be used to perform a validation. This section will include a
deep analysis on the behavior of the internal kube-dns and kube-proxy as well as a behavioral
comparison with the external solutions conceived for this work.
4.1. DNS comparison
The Kubernetes internal DNS service helps resolving IP addresses by performing a map of the
name of a certain service to its IP address, therefore easing the finding of services by other pods.
Just like a real DNS service, the domain names used in Kubernetes must be unique. In most of the
cases, Kubernetes automatically starts the internal DNS service to offer a lightweight service
discovery feature. Enabling DNS based service discovery in a Kubernetes cluster facilitates for
applications to find and work with each other, even when a service has been changed, moved or
deleted. When an internal DNS service runs in a cluster, it does it in the following way: a service
named coreDNS is started and one pod per node is created, the DNS service listens for service
associated events through the Kubernetes API in order to keep its record updated, these events
happen every time a service or a pod associated to it is created, changed or deleted. Kubelet sets
the resolve.conf name server option to the coreDNS IP address with the corresponding search
option that will allow the use of short hostnames. CoreDNS support the creation of two types of
DNS records, A and SVC. The normal A records for services are formed in the following way:
<service.namespace.svc.cluster.local>. In the same way, an entry for a pod will include its IP
address like: <1.2.3.4.namespace.pod.cluster.local>. The SVC records created look like the
following: <_port-name._protocol.svc.cluster.local>. This will lead to the creation of a
consistent DNS-based discovery service that will enable the communication between applications
and pods in the cluster.
The external DNS service implemented for the proof-of-concept also supports the dynamic
update of the records via MQTT. In the same way, the external DNS must be present in every
single worker node for efficiently allowing a complete update. However, the main focus of the
external DNS heavily differs from the internal Kubernetes DNS. While the internal DNS provides
translation for services or pods, the external service provides translation at node level, this means
that each of the entries in the zones files corresponds to a Kubernetes node, neither to service nor
a pod. Modifying the structure of the DNS entries is quite simple thanks to them being in a .txt
format, thus improving automation. Currently, the external DNS service does not provide support
for SVC entries due to their compatibility not being universal and therefore, not present in all
networks. A quite complete solution for the implementation of a DNS server is bind 9. However,
the use of it implies its installation as well as extra configuration on the gateways, which might
not be useful in a developing environment. It also requires the gateways hardware to be able to
support the deployment of daemons heavier than, in this case, Python. For a production
environment, the use of bind 9 like solutions is encouraged.
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4.2. Proxy comparison
Kubernetes internal Proxy service follows a concept quite close to a reverse proxy. Its main task
is to watch for the client requests heading towards a certain IP address and port, forwarding them
to the corresponding service or application inside the cluster. From a certain point of view, the
only difference between the internal proxy and a normal proxy server is the fact that Kubernetes’
internal proxy will perform forwarding towards a service and its corresponding pod, not to a host.
A very important characteristic of Kubernetes services’ is that at the moment of their creation, the
system will automatically assign a “Virtual IP address” to this new service. This IP address is
known as virtual because there is no interface nor MAC associated with it. Therefore, the network
does not know how to route the packets going towards it. In other words, the internal proxy
service will forward requests performed by other applications or pods towards the backend pods
that are managed by the required services while translating the virtual IP addresses of the services
into IP addresses of the corresponding pods, thus making it not necessary for the entity making
the request to actually know what pod is behind a determined service. To know how to route
traffic from the assigned virtual IP to the corresponding pod, the proxy service interacts with
Netfilter and iptables, a pair of Linux configuration tools that help in the creation of forwarding
rules for the virtual IPs.
Kubernetes is a quite complex system, although some networking tasks such as load balancing or
specifying some packet rules are directly performed at user space level. The internal proxy will
often have to switch between the user space and kernel space in order to be able to interact with
iptables and performing the load balancing, thus behaving as a reverse proxy. The process of
forwarding the traffic between the virtual IPs and the corresponding pods is performed in four
steps. First, the kube-proxy is permanently watching for the modification, creation or deletion of
services and their respective pods. Next, if a new service is created, kube proxy will open a
random port on the node to forward any incoming connection on the port towards the
corresponding pod. The pod that will be used is chosen based on the Session Affinity option
under the Spec parameter in the service configuration. After this, kube-proxy will install the
iptables rules that will redirect traffic going to the virtual IPs and the service port towards the
proxy port that was opened in the last step. Finally, the incoming traffic in the proxy port is
forwarded towards the existing pods using a round-robin schema.
In the same way as the internal Kubernetes proxy, the proof-of-concept’s reverse proxy
implementation runs on every available worker node in the cluster and is automatically updated
as new services are modified, created or deleted. However, to avoid the re-sending of requests
between nodes, the external proxy service serves only locally available services, based on the
work of the master node service discovery that helps with the association of services and nodes.
Although it seems that the functionalities of the internal and external proxy servers are
overlapping each other, in reality, the external proxy service works based on the NodePort
created after exposing a service outside the cluster, and it needs the internal proxy service for
achieving its purpose. In the scenario where communication is performed only inside the cluster,
a external proxy service will not be necessary, but when most, if not all of the requests come from
outside the cluster, then an external proxy service comes in handy. Any service can be accessed
either from inside or outside the cluster using the NodePort, however, Kubernetes opens a
NodePort on all existing worker nodes every time a service is exposed, therefore a request for
certain service heading towards a node where the backend pod is not located, will cause kube-
proxy to route it towards the right node. With the external proxy service running, the internal
Kubernetes proxy will only receive requests that can be processed locally, in other words,
requests asking for services whose backend pods are located in the node. It is possible to
implement a reverse proxy using Python, but the proof-of-concept’s implementation uses the
widely known Nginx running on top of a load balancer to achieve the desired behavior.
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4.3. Service discovery comparison
As explained previously, Kubernetes performs a service discovery based on its internal DNS
service and proxy service. Although not completely efficient due to the multiple request
redirections occurring between the worker nodes, it gets things working in a fairly reliable way.
When it comes to the implementation of external in-house applications such as the DNS and
proxy service developed in this work, Kubernetes does not provide a way to associate existing
services with its backend pods and the corresponding worker node to enable direct requests. The
master service discovery developed for the proof-of-concept provides a method for associating
the existing services with their backend pods, by assuming the service belongs to the node where
its corresponding pod was scheduled. This has proven to be quite effective with the condition that
pods have a name that is related to the service they are providing.
4.4. Testing
The testing topology as well as all running services and their respective location, can be observed
in Figure 6. Under the precedent testing considerations, it must be taken into account that
Mininet’s virtualization is done only at a network level, and each host process sees the same set
of processes and directories. Thus, it hinders the functions of the DNS service and the MQTT-
based update system. The issue arises due to the lack of directory isolation. The update system
will send the corresponding zone files to the gateways, and they will vary according to the
gateway’s location. This means that gateway 1 shall receive a different zones file than gateway 2
due to it being located closer to a worker node. However, this does not happen in Mininet, where
the files received would be overwritten causing the DNS service to upload the wrong zones. In
the same way, the resolve.conf file that contains the DNS server’s addresses must be unique per
host; otherwise, all of them will be pointing at the same DNS server causing the network to be
flooded with wrong requests.
A similar situation occurs with the custom DNS server. It has to be bound to the gateway’s
interface that is going towards the host network; therefore, a different custom DNS service file is
needed per gateway. These issues were overcome by creating the needed files in the directory
/etc/netns/<host-name> containing the resolv.conf and the custom DNS files. The principle
behind this is that ip-netns creates the namespaces as a logical copy of the network stack, but it
inherits the whole network namespace from its parent. In the case of network namespace aware
applications, a global network configuration is first looked for in the above-mentioned directory
and after this in /etc/, so by creating the files in /etc/netns/<host-name> they are being loaded as
global network configuration. Taking into account that this work is based on the dynamic
discovery of updated, newly created and deleted services, the measurements carried out will be
the time required for creating the zones files and the Nginx configuration files, as well as the time
until the changes have been applied to both, the DNS server and the Nginx service.
It must be taken into account that reloading the required services in the orchestrator are carried
out almost simultaneously; thus, the time for a service to be available for the end-user, as shown
in Figure 7, is the time required to reload the DNS and Nginx (~5 seconds). We can infer that at
the moment of creating a service, the number of worker nodes available does not influence the
overall time. One reason for this might be the fact that Docker containers backing those services
are created only in the scheduled worker nodes, therefore eliminating any possible queuing time.
Of course, times regarding the download of images required to run certain services are not taken
into account. On the other hand, in Figure 8 we can note a slight difference in the files creation
function when two worker nodes are present. The reason behind this behavior might be the fact
that Kubernetes master node also must delete the corresponding API object for every deleted
service.
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Figure 7. Time required for the orchestrator to perform the necessary tasks in order to fully discover a
newly created service.
Figure 8. The time required for the orchestrator to perform the necessary tasks in order to eliminate a
recently deleted service.
From Figures 7 and 8 it can be inferred that the time of reloading the external Nginx and DNS
services does not vary regarding whether a service is being discovered or deleted. This comes
from the fact that Nginx and DNS reloading only occurs after the service has been discovered, a
task that does not take a considerable amount of time. On the other hand, service deletion takes a
much higher time due to pods being granted a grace time to not only delete the process but also
the API object. The time required for deleting a back-end pod will always be higher than the
required time for creating it, even if the process running inside the pod is lightweight. One
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solution to this is to use the flag --wait=false when deleting the pod, though it is highly
recommended to grant this grace time to ensure a proper deletion. When a service is deleted and
its back-end pods stay in the terminating phase for a determined period time, no concern exists as
the service will not be available anymore, and even if the Nginx service has not been updated yet,
requests being forwarded towards the deleted service will not be successful.
Convergence times can be altered to modify the amount of traffic generated by the service
discovery as well as its effectiveness when discovering new services. However, the alteration of
delays will impact the efficiency of the service discovery and must be analyzed according to the
situation. As an example, if services are added on a regular basis one after the other with just a
couple of seconds of difference, then a small delay will be required in the master service
discovery. Similarly, some delays can be added before publishing the created files in the MQTT
publisher code or before saving the received files in the subscriber code. One possibility for
dropping the times associated with the restart of the services, at least for Nginx, is to use the
daemon-based Nginx installation in Linux, instead of the Docker-based version. This would
reduce the amount of time spent to obtain the name of the Nginx pod, copying the files and
restarting the service to only restarting the daemon. Nevertheless, the time spent at reloading
Nginx and DNS does not really impact the user experience as it takes no more than 3 seconds.
5. CONCLUSION
Containerization is nowadays the most common way of deploying a service, widely used
applications all run on containerized environments. As is expected, containerization offers many
advantages to corporate-wide applications, from those running basic web services to the more
complex, edge-computing related applications. Knowing that containerized applications are prone
to suffer modifications, the current work aims at providing a method that can be used for easily
discovering and accessing containerized services deployed in a Kubernetes environment.
However, the proof-of-concept cannot yet be efficiently implemented in a real-life scenario as an
increased degree of automation as well as some performance improvements must be carried out.
This proof-of-concept can properly run in a testing environment. Although no commercial
options are available to correctly perform a comparison, quite useful features are present
regarding the service discovery and the utilization of a proxy server to access the deployed
services. Some improvements are needed in the performance of the service to pod association in
the master service discovery application. Until now the deployed pod must have the same name
as the deployed service in order to identify it.
5.1. Future research
Future work will focus on effectively improving the delivery of the required configuration files,
so the right gateways will receive the right information. Taking into account that hosts must be
served by the closest available worker node, future work will focus on efficiently measuring the
geographical distance between worker nodes as well as a telemetry system for real-time
measurement using data plane programmability.
5.1.1 Node distance computing function
A way to dynamically obtain and update the distance between the gateway and the available
worker nodes is a quite important feature that would allow the MQTT subscribers located in the
gateways to select the closest node available so they can receive updates regarding this specific
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worker node as the local node. A common belief states that latency is an acceptably accurate tool
for this purpose, which of course is not a valid assumption. IP addresses cannot be characterized
by geographical reasons as a determined region might or might not be assigned a certain IP
addresses block to it. With this in mind, an IP address assigned to Finland may easily be
announced by a device at any other country, thus not guaranteeing that an entire network has been
assigned to a single geographical location.
TS Eugene et al have proposed in [13] a method that can be used for the implementation of this
feature and some coordinates-based approaches for network distance estimation are discussed.
The idea behind the coordinates-based distance measurement is that hosts maintain a determined
set of numbers, also known as coordinates, that are used for characterizing their locations in the
network and allow a distance prediction based on the result of a distance function run over the
host’s coordinates. This approach works particularly well on a peer-to-peer architecture, when a
host discovers another host’s identity, their coordinates would be exchanged and then the distance
will be computed instantly. The mentioned work points out that coordinates have proven to be
quite efficient at summarizing large amounts of distance information. A concern regarding the
proposed approach is related to the assumption of stability in the network, such as consistent
propagation delays. If this does not hold due to the constant changes in network topology,
distance estimations will be affected.
5.1.2 Load balancing and telemetry
Data plane programmability can be considered as the natural evolution of SDN, as it enables
much flexible networking when compared with a normal control plane based programmable
network. Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors, also known as P4, is the de-facto
language for data-plane programmability. It allows several features extension of SDN networks
as well as a dynamic configuration of actions that go far beyond those allowed by the OpenFlow
specifications. However, data plane programmability is not a silver bullet and although it allows
to easily add new protocols, or remove unused protocols in a network chip, its effectiveness can
only be appreciated at networks carrying huge amounts of traffic. The proof-of-concept system
takes advantage of ONOS’s P4 support by implementing some novel features that will improve
the experience and manageability of the system and creating a custom P4-based Load balancer
and Telemetry system. By diving into these topics, it is assumed that a real-life implementation of
the proof-of-concept is meant to possess a high traffic rate.
In [14], Miao Rui et al, demonstrated that it is possible to implement a fully functional P4-based
load balancer that can support millions of simultaneous connections while providing per-
connection consistency. The same principle can be applied for developing an in-house layer 4
load balancer instead of the currently used MetalLB, bringing higher performance, lower delay
and the relief of the MetalLB related pods in all the running worker nodes while decreasing the
chances of user experience degradation based on broken connections. An in-house in-band
network telemetry system is also possible to implement by using P4 as it has been demonstrated
in [15] by Changhoon et al. In-band network telemetry allows data packets to query for switch
internal state statistics such as link utilization and queue size. Thanks to each P4 switch having a
control channel that allows the insertion, deletion, and modification of matching tables, it is
possible to send probe packets that contain the switch ID and the specific time spent in a
determined switch.
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AUTHORS
Felipe Andres Rodriguez Yaguache is currently finishing his master studies in
Communication Engineering at Aalto University (Finland), and is working at the
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) as a Master Thesis Worker. His interests
include edge computing, SDN, networking and data plane programmability.
Kimmo Ahola currently works as a Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research
Centre of Finland. His research interests include Computer Communications
(Networks), Software Defined Networking, Edge Computing, Network Functions
Virtualisation, Computer Security and Reliability and Operating Systems.