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Deployment of NRF in the Docker and Kubernetes - Based NFV Platform

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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) which is one of the core technologies plays an important role in reality. NFV permits using Virtual Network Functions (VNF) as software components on top of a virtualization system (i.e., Virtual Machines or Containers) hosted in a cloud, which makes network services and functions deployed in high flexibility and elasticity. Therefore, based on this design concept, in 5G core networks, NRF (Network Repository Function), which was implemented in a server, supports network function of registering and monitoring conditions. It achieves automatic management, selection, and scalability of network function services. In this paper, NRF is deployed in Docker and Kubernetes-based NFV platform in the form of JSON + HTTP/2.0 that supports service discovery function. The performance is tested on a hardware platform, including Network Function (NF) Register, NF Update and NF Deregister. From the testing data, we can find that the NRF in the Docker and Kubernetes-based NFV platform is better than only Docker implemented platform.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the Beijing Science and technology project (No. Z191100001419001), in part by the Beijing Excellent Talent Support Program (No. 2016000026833ZK08), in part by the Support Plan for the Construction of High Level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities (No. CIT&TCD201704065), and in part by Discipline construction project of Beijing Information Science & Technology University (No. 5121911006).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Modern Measurement and Control Technology, Ministry of Education, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing, China

    Zhan Xu

  2. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing, China

    Di Huang & Zhan Xu

  3. Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Di Huang & Zhigang Tian

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples “Frederico II”, Naples, Italy

    Flora Amato

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy

    Francesco Moscato

  4. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

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  5. Department of Advanced Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Huang, D., Xu, Z., Tian, Z. (2020). Deployment of NRF in the Docker and Kubernetes - Based NFV Platform. In: Barolli, L., Amato, F., Moscato, F., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications. WAINA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44038-1_19

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