A Walk in the Clouds: Routing through VNFs on Bidirected Networks

A Walk in the Clouds: Routing through VNFs on Bidirected Networks

Abstract

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.

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Authors
  • 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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