VNF chain abstraction for cloud service providers
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Nodir Kodirov, Sam Bayless, Fabian Ruffy, Ivan Beschastnikh, 
Holger H. Hoos, Alan J. HuAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
We propose VNF chain abstraction to decouple a tenant's view of the VNF chain from the cloud provider's implementation. We motivate the benefits of such an abstraction for the cloud provider as well as the tenants, and outline the challenges a cloud provider needs to address to make the chain abstraction practical. We describe the design requirements and report on our initial prototype.
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