The practice of NFV decoupling test
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nfvrg Y. Long
Internet-Draft Y. Song
Intended status: Informational Z. Tang
Expires: June 30, 2019 BII
Dec 27, 2018
The practice of NFV decoupling test
draft-long-nfvrg-nfv-decoupling-test-00
Abstract
This document mainly introduces the practice of NFV decoupling test.
Based on the product development situation of the current vendors,
the decoupling test is carried out between NFVI&VIM, VNFM&VNF and
NFVO. Through a series of tests to explore some of the problems
encountered in the current stage of NFV decoupling testing, provide
ideas for the subsequent development of NFV products.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Decoupling test of NFV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Introduce of NFV decoupling test . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. NFV decoupling test architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Decoupling test of NFV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1. Introduction
3GPP has adopted the R15 standard and the SBA (Service Based
Architecture) architecture, which further splits multiple NFs(Network
Functions) in the 5G core network into multiple NFS (Network Function
Service), each NFS has the characteristics of independent autonomy.
But the existence of multiple NFSs in the clouded NFV also brings
compatibility problems. Therefore, one of the key requirements of
the 5G core network for the clouded NFV platform is open. The cloud
platform needs to implement decoupling deployment and network
resource sharing, thus not only avoiding the lock-up of single-
vendors but also can build an open ecosystem based on open source
projects.
But, there are still many problems in the decoupling of the clouded
NFV platform. The interfaces of different vendors are not
standardized and are not unified, which makes it difficult for the
components of the NFV platform to properly connect and provide
complete services. According to the [ETSI_GS_NFV_002], it divides
the NFV into multiple modules as shown in Figure 1.
o Virtualized Network Function (VNF).
o Element Management (EM).
o NFV Infrastructure, including: Hardware and virtualized resources,
and Virtualization Layer.
o Virtualized Infrastructure Manager(s) (VIM).
o NFV Orchestrator.
o VNF Manager(s).
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o Service, VNF and Infrastructure Description. Operations and
Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS).
+--------------------+
+-------------------------------------------+ | +--------------+ |
| OSS/BSS | | | NFV | |
+-------------------------------------------+ | | Orchestrator +-+ |
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