SPRING

Scaling, Placement, and RoutING for Pliable Virtualized Composed Services

A-SPRING (included here as a submodule that will take you to the original repository) includes the implementation of the scaling, placement, and routing optimization and heuristic approaches for pliable services with arbitrarily ordered components. This is the evaluation code used in the following publications. Please cite our papers if you are using the code.

• Sevil Mehraghdam, Matthias Keller, and Holger Karl. Specifying and Plac- ing Chains of Virtual Network Functions. In 3rd International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), pages 7–13. IEEE, October 2014.
• Sevil Mehraghdam and Holger Karl. Specification of Complex Structures in Distributed Service Function Chaining Using a YANG Data Model. CoRR, abs/1503.02442, 2015.
• Sevil Mehraghdam and Holger Karl. Placement of Services with Flexible Structures Specified by a YANG Data Model. In 2nd IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, June 2016.

U-SPRING is the imeplementation of the scaling, placement, and routing optimization and heuristic approaches for uni-directional pliable services with load-proportional structures. This is the evaluation code used in the following publications. Please cite our papers if you are using the code. The implementation of the approaches was mainly done by Z. A. Mann.

• Sevil Dräxler, Holger Karl, and Zoltan Adam Mann. Joint Optimization of Scaling and Placement of Virtual Network Services. In 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGrid ’17, pages 365–370. IEEE Press, May 2017.
• Sevil Dräxler, Holger Karl, and Zoltan Adam. Jasper: Joint optimization of scaling, placement, and routing of virtual network services. IEEE Transac- tions on Network and Service Management, 15(3):946–960, September 2018.

B-SPRING (included here as a submodule that will take you to the original repository) is the imeplementation of the scaling, placement, and routing optimization and heuristic approaches for bi-directional pliable services with load-proportional structures. This is the evaluation code used in the following publications. Please cite our papers if you are using the code. The implementation of the approaches was mainly done by S. Schneider.

• Sevil Dräxler, Stefan Schneider, and Holger Karl. Scaling and Placing Bidirectional Services with Stateful Virtual and Physical Network Functions. In 4th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, June 2018.

• Stefan Schneider, Sevil Dräxler, and Holger Karl. Trade-offs in Dynamic Resource Allocation in Network Function Virtualization. In 1st Workshop on Advanced Control Planes for Software Networks (ACPSN) at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). IEEE, December 2018.

M-SPRING is the imeplementation of the scaling, placement, and routing optimization and heuristic approaches for heterogeneous pliable services with load-proportional structures including multi-version components. This is the evaluation code used in the following publication. Please cite our paper if you are using the code.

• Sevil Dräxler and Holger Karl. SPRING: Scaling, Placement, and Routing of Heterogeneous Services with Flexible Structures. In 5th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE, June 2019.