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Most existing virtual network (VN) provisioning approaches assume a single administrative domain and therefore, VN deployments are limited to the geographic footprint of the substrate provider. To enable wide-area VN provisioning, network virtualization architectures need to address the intricacies of inter-domain aspects, i.e., how to provision VNs with limited control and knowledge of any aspect of the physical infrastructure.
To this end, we present a framework for large-scale VN provisioning. We decompose VN provisioning into multiple steps to overcome the implications of limited information on resource discovery and allocation. We present a new resource selection algorithm with simultaneous node and link mapping to assign resources within each domain. We use a signaling protocol that integrates resource reservations for virtual link setup with Quality-of-Service guarantees. Our experimental results show that small VNs can be provisioned within a few seconds.
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Papadimitriou, P. et al. (2012). Towards Large-Scale Network Virtualization. In: Koucheryavy, Y., Mamatas, L., Matta, I., Tsaoussidis, V. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communication. WWIC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30630-3_2
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