Presentation 2016-09-29
Application of Evolutionary Mechanism to Dynamic Virtual Network Function Placement
Mari Otokura, Kenji Leibnitz, Yuki Koizumi, Daichi Kominami, Tetsuya Shimokawa, Masayuki Murata,
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Abstract(in English) Recently, communication network services have becomeincreasingly diverse and dynamic. The important goals of the dynamic VNF placementproblem include accommodating new requests followingthe dynamics and reducing the time to calculate solutions. Totackle this problem, we utilize the concept of Modularly VaryingGoals (MVG), which is based on a genetic algorithm (GA) andgenerates solutions that can easily adapt to time-varying goals inshort time. In this paper, we propose Evolvable VNF Placement(EvoVNFP) that applies the concept of MVG to the dynamicVNF placement problem to reduce the time to obtain solutions.Results from numerical evaluations show that our method is ableto better follow the dynamics of VNF requests and also reducetime until adapting to successive objectives.
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Keyword(in English) Network Function Virtualization / Service Function Chaining / Evolutionary Algorithm
Paper # IN2016-37
Date of Issue 2016-09-22 (IN)

Conference Information
Committee NS / CS / IN
Conference Date 2016/9/29(2days)
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Place (in English) Tohoku Univ.
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Post IP networking, Next Generation Network (NGN)/New Generation Network (NWGN), Contingency Plan/BCP, Network Coding/Network Algorithms, Session Management (SIP/IMS), Internetworking/Standardization, Network configuration, etc.
Chair Hideki Tode(Osaka Pref. Univ.) / Tetsuya Yokotani(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / Katsunori Yamaoka(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT) / Hidenori Nakazato(Waseda Univ.) / Takuji Kishida(NTT)
Secretary Yoshikatsu Okazaki(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Hidenori Nakazato(NTT) / Takuji Kishida(NTT)
Assistant Shohei Kamamura(NTT) / / Kunitake Kaneko(Keio Univ.) / Takashi Natsume(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Communication Systems / Technical Committee on Information Networks
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Application of Evolutionary Mechanism to Dynamic Virtual Network Function Placement
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Network Function Virtualization
Keyword(2) Service Function Chaining
Keyword(3) Evolutionary Algorithm
1st Author's Name Mari Otokura
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kenji Leibnitz
2nd Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/Osaka University(NICT/Osaka Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Yuki Koizumi
3rd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
4th Author's Name Daichi Kominami
4th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
5th Author's Name Tetsuya Shimokawa
5th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/Osaka University(NICT/Osaka Univ.)
6th Author's Name Masayuki Murata
6th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
Date 2016-09-29
Paper # IN2016-37
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) IN-231
Page pp.pp.7-12(IN),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-09-22 (IN)