Guaranteed-Availability Network Function Virtualization in Inter-Datacenter Networks
Jian Kong, Inwoong Kim, Xi Wang, Qiong Zhang, Weisheng Xie, Hakki C. Cankaya, Nannan Wang, Tadashi Ikeuchi, Jason P. Jue · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2018
Considering the availability of the datacenter's network elements, we propose a coordinated protection mechanism that adopts both backup path protection and SFC replicas distributed among datacenters to support high availability while reducing total cost.