A Walk in the Clouds: Routing through VNFs on Bidirected Networks
The virtualization of network functions enables innovative new network services which can be deployed quickly and at low cost on (distributed) cloud computing infrastructure. This paper initiates the algorithmic study of the fundamental underlying problem of how to efficiently route traffic through a given set of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs). We are given a link-capacitated network G=(V,E) , a source-destination pair (s,t)∈V2 and a set of waypoints W⊂V (the VNFs). In particular, we consider the practically relevant but rarely studied case of bidirected networks. The objective is to find a (shortest) route from s to t such that all waypoints are visited. We show that the problem features interesting connections to classic combinatorial problems, present different algorithms, and derive hardness results.
Top- Foerster, Klaus-Tycho
- Parham, Mahmoud
- Schmid, Stefan
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Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Paper) |
Event Title |
3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017) |
Divisions |
Communication Technologies |
Subjects |
Angewandte Informatik Theoretische Informatik |
Event Location |
Vienna, Austria |
Event Type |
Workshop |
Event Dates |
5 Sept 2017 |
Date |
September 2017 |
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