Towards optimal orchestration of network control functions: an evolutionary approach

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Bairley, Alan
Xie, Geoffrey
Carlyle, Matthew
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2016-06-09Metadata
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Software-defined network (SDN) orchestration, the problem of integrating and deploying multiple network control functions (NCFs)
while minimizing suboptimal network states that can result from competing NCF objectives, is a challenging open problem.In this
work, we formulate SDN orchestration as a multiobjective optimization problem, and present an evolutionary approach designed to
explore the NCF tradeoff space comprehensively and avoid local optima.For an instance of the VM allocation problem subject to three
independent NCFs optimizing network survivability, bandwidth efficiency, and power consumption, respectively, we demonstrate that
our approach can enumerate a wider range of, and potentially better solutions than current orchestrators, for data centers with 100s of
switches, 1,000s of servers, and 10,000s of VM slots.
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