A Novel Compact Header for Traffic Steering in Service Function Chaining

Hajar Hantouti; Nabil Benamar; Tarik Taleb

doi:10.1109/ICC.2018.8422597

A Novel Compact Header for Traffic Steering in Service Function Chaining

Hajar Hantouti, Nabil Benamar, Tarik Taleb

University of Moulay Ismail

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Abstract

Large-scale networking infrastructures such as service providers deploy complex services to deal with the growing network traffic demand, security concerns, and user preferences. Using Service Function Chaining (SFC)
, a set of networking and management operations, permits to steer the traffic through a list of intermediate services. Traffic steering for SFC is usually based on packet headers to share the SFC information, however such headers introduce encapsulation overhead and require service functions support. In this paper, we present a novel traffic steering technique based on a compact SFC header. The proposed header does not increase the packet size and allows network operators to deploy SFC using legacy service functions. We also present a new SDN architecture for SFC based on compact headers. Our proposal permits a scalable and a flexible SFC deployment in real-life infrastructures.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-3180-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2018.8422597
Publication status	Published - 2018
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	IEEE International Conference on Communications - Kansas, United States Duration: 20 May 2018 → 24 May 2018

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Electronic)	1938-1883

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Communications
Abbreviated title	ICC
Country/Territory	United States
City	Kansas
Period	20/05/2018 → 24/05/2018

Keywords

Service function chaining
Traffic Steering
software-defined networking
network function virtualization

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CSN: Customized Software Networking across Multiple Administrative Domains
Taleb, T. (Principal investigator)
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2021
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding

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