SLA-Aware Fine-Grained QoS Provisioning for Multi-Tenant Software-Defined Networks

IEEE Access

Jun Wu¹  Jianhua Li¹  Gaolei Li¹  Longhua Guo¹  Zhenyu Zhou² 

[1] School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrated Administration Technologies for Information Security, Shanghai, China;State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China;

关键词: Multi-tenant software-defined networks (MTSDN);    QoS provisioning;    service level agreement (SLA);    dynamic bandwidth allocation;   

DOI  :  10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2761553

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Multi-tenant software-defined networks have emerged as a promising service platform to manage and share virtual network services between tenants and end-users. However, when using a service level agreement (SLA) in a multi-tenant circumstance, the resource competition among tenants incurred in many challenges on the quality of services (QoS) provisioning. First, as the existing QoS provisioning was to translate the high-level SLA contact into a group of corresponding low-level QoS rules, this traditional top-down translation mechanism was too ossified to support the dynamic SLA negotiation. Second, since an end-user usually requested multiple services and different services had different QoS requirements, the QoS provisioning required tenants to monitor and control the network status though OpenFlow protocol in a fine-grained way. To address these issues, we propose an SLA-aware fine-grained QoS provisioning (SFQP) scheme for MTSDN. The SFQP scheme extracts the eigen characteristics of each packet by applicationaware technology automatically. Considering tenants are more willing to serve for users which have popular SLA contact to earn more revenues, we predict the SLA popularity by K-nearest neighbor. Moreover, we present an SLA-aware dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm to implement the proposed SFQP scheme. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is verified by simulations of the SLA taxonomy, bandwidth utilization, and bandwidth fluctuation.

【 授权许可】

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