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NFV orchestration on intermittently available SUAV platforms: challenges and hurdles

Year: 2019

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the main challenges and issues related with the orchestration of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) on Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SUAVs). Our analysis considers a reference scenario where a number of SUAVs are deployed over a delimited geographic area and provide a mobile cloud environment that supports the deployment of functionalities using Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies. The orchestration of services in this reference scenario presents different challenges, due to the constrained capacity and limited lifetime of battery-powered SUAVs, the intermittent availability of network communications, and the need to consider enhanced policies for the allocation of virtual functions to SUAVs. Finally, we perform a first exploratory evaluation of the identified challenges and issues, using a well-known and widely adopted virtualized infrastructure manager, i.e., OpenStack.

Source: IMDEA Networks Institute Digital Repository

Authors: Gonzalez, Luis. F, Vidal, Iván, Valera, Francisco, Sanchez-Aguero, Victor, Nogales, Borja, López, Diego R.

Institutions: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Networks, Telefonica Research and Development

Language: English

Topic: Software-Defined Networks and 5G

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7214810747

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