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Price and Performance of Cloud-hosted Virtual Network Functions: Analysis and Future Challenges

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Price and Performance of Cloud-hosted Virtual Network Functions: Analysis and Future Challenges. / Ghrada, Nadir; Zhani, Mohamed Faten; Elkhatib, Yehia.
2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft). 2018. p. 482-487.

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Ghrada, N, Zhani, MF & Elkhatib, Y 2018, Price and Performance of Cloud-hosted Virtual Network Functions: Analysis and Future Challenges. in 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft). pp. 482-487. https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2018.8460032

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Ghrada, N., Zhani, M. F., & Elkhatib, Y. (2018). Price and Performance of Cloud-hosted Virtual Network Functions: Analysis and Future Challenges. In 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft) (pp. 482-487) https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2018.8460032

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Ghrada N, Zhani MF, Elkhatib Y. Price and Performance of Cloud-hosted Virtual Network Functions: Analysis and Future Challenges. In 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft). 2018. p. 482-487 doi: 10.1109/NETSOFT.2018.8460032

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Ghrada, Nadir ; Zhani, Mohamed Faten ; Elkhatib, Yehia. / Price and Performance of Cloud-hosted Virtual Network Functions : Analysis and Future Challenges. 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft). 2018. pp. 482-487

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abstract = "The concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been introduced as a new paradigm in the recent few years. NFV offers a number of benefits including significantly increased maintainability and reduced deployment overhead. Several works have been done to optimize deployment (also called embedding) of virtual network functions (VNFs). However, no work to date has looked into optimizing the selection of cloud instances for a given VNF and its specific requirements. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of VNFs when embedded on different Amazon EC2 cloud instances. Specifically, we evaluate three VNFs (firewall, IDS, and NAT) in terms of arrival packet rate, resources utilization, and packet loss. Our results indicate that performance varies across instance types, departing from the intuition of {"}you get what you pay for'' with cloud instances. We also find out that CPU is the critical resource for the tested VNFs, although their peak packet processing capacities differ considerably from each other. Finally, based on the obtained results, we identify key research challenges related to VNF instance selection and service chain provisioning.",
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