Pro-/Seminar Rechnernetze

Topics Summer term 2018: Network Softwarization 

Topics will deal with with issues in network softwarization. A few more topics yet to come. 

Predictive placements 

• Blenk, Andreas, et al. "o'zapft is: Tap Your Network Algorithm's Big Data!." Proceedings of the Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks. ACM, 2017.
  https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3098597
• Mao, Hongzi, et al. "Resource management with deep reinforcement learning." Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. ACM, 2016.
  https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3005750
• Zhang, Xiaoxi, et al. "Proactive VNF provisioning with multi-timescale cloud resources: Fusing online learning and online optimization." INFOCOM 2017-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE. IEEE, 2017.
  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8057118/
• Mijumbi, Rashid, et al. "Topology-aware prediction of virtual network function resource requirements." IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 14.1 (2017): 106-120.
  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7849149/

Automated NFV and Cloud Performance Profiling

• Rao, Jia, et al. "A distributed self-learning approach for elastic provisioning of virtualized cloud resources." Modeling, Analysis & Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), 2011 IEEE 19th International Symposium on. IEEE, 2011. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6005367/

• Rosa, Raphael Vicente, Claudio Bertoldo, and Christian Esteve Rothenberg. "Take Your VNF to the Gym: A Testing Framework for Automated NFV Performance Benchmarking." IEEE Communications Magazine 55.9 (2017): 110-117.
  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8030496/

• Nam, Jaehyun, Junsik Seo, and Seungwon Shin. "Probius: Automated Approach for VNF and Service Chain Analysis in Software-Defined NFV." ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (2018). https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2018/sosr18-finals/sosr18-final66.pdf

• Brunnert, Andreas, and Helmut Krcmar. "Continuous performance evaluation and capacity planning using resource profiles for enterprise applications." Journal of Systems and Software 123 (2017): 239-262. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121215001831

Multi-version VNFs on special hardware 

• Naif Tarafdar, Thomas Lin, Eric Fukuda, Hadi Bannazadeh, Alberto Leon-Garcia, and Paul Chow, "Enabling Flexible Network FPGA Clusters in a Heterogeneous Cloud Data Center". In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 237-246.  https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3020078.3021742
• N. Tarafdar, T. Lin, N. Eskandari, D. Lion, A. Leon-Garcia and P. Chow, "Heterogeneous virtualized network function framework for the data center," 2017 27th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Ghent, 2017, pp. 1-8. ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp
• C. Sun, J. Bi, Z. Zheng and H. Hu, "HYPER: A Hybrid High-Performance Framework for Network Function Virtualization," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 35, no. 11, pp. 2490-2500, Nov. 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp
• X. Zhang, X. Shao, G. Provelengios, N. K. Dumpala, L. Gao and R. Tessier, "Scalable Network Function Virtualization for Heterogeneous Middleboxes," 2017 IEEE 25th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Napa, CA, 2017, pp. 219-226. ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp

Network Function Virtualization for 5G networks 

• Francescon A, Baggio G, Fedrizzi R, Ferrusy R, Yahiaz IG, Riggio R. X–MANO: Cross–domain management and orchestration of network services. InNetwork Softwarization (NetSoft), 2017 IEEE Conference on 2017 Jul 3 (pp. 1-5). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8004223
• Paolino M, Pinneterre S, Raho D. FPGA virtualization with accelerators overcommitment for network function virtualization. InReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), 2017 International Conference on 2017 Dec 4 (pp. 1-6). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8279796
• • Watanabe Y, Kobayashi Y, Takenaka T, Hosomi T, Nakamura Y. Accelerating NFV application using CPU-FPGA tightly coupled architecture. In Field Programmable Technology (ICFPT), 2017 International Conference on 2017 Dec 11 (pp. 136-143). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8280131 
  • Paganelli F, Paradiso F, Gherardelli M, Galletti G. Network service description model for VNF orchestration leveraging intent-based SDN interfaces. In Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2017 IEEE Conference on 2017 Jul 3 (pp. 1-5). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8004210 

Goals

The goals of a seminar (Master) or proseminar (Bachelor) are to introduce and practice the reading, writing, and presentation of technical and scientific content. This includes, yet is not limited to: 

• Independent understanding and production of content based on original literature 
• Finding suitable sources based on first hints 
• Selecting important content and disregarding less relevant material 
• Preparing a writeup (an excellent exercise for later production of Master thesis and similar documents) 
• Presenting content to an audience 

Seminars and proseminars are structurally very similar; seminars address students in a Master program and hence have slightly higher expectation levels regarding content as well as independence of work. 

Organisation 

We typically run seminars as "mini conferences", in a block format. Participants will assumes the roles of "authors" in such a conference as well as those of "reviewers". This will introduce a crucial aspects of the scientific community and its processes; in addition, it will also give participants a broader, more critical understanding of text production and reception. 

There are a couple of typical steps: 

• Assignment of topics 
• VERY short review of assigned literature, identifying a set of sources to work from 
• Structure of the writeup 
• Writeup in a draft format 
• Mutual review of drafts amongst participants 
• Final version of writeup 
• Draft version of presentation (slides or similar) 
• Final version of presentation 
• Actual presentation 

Grading 

The grade of a seminar comprises aspects of text production, independence, originality, presentation quality, and discussions during the actual "conference". 

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is an annoying yet repeating issue in such events. We will extensively discuss what constitutes plagiarism and help to avoid it. But we will also not tolerate any form of plagiarism and strictly follow procedures as specified in the exam regulations. 

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