Type
Conference PaperKAUST Department
Computer Science ProgramComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Date
2019-04-26Online Publication Date
2019-04-26Print Publication Date
2018-05Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/630819
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The steady decline of IP transit prices in the past two decades has helped fuel the growth of traffic demands in the Internet ecosystem. Despite the declining unit pricing, bandwidth costs remain significant due to ever-increasing scale and reach of the Internet, combined with the price disparity between the Internet's core hubs versus remote regions. In the meantime, cloud providers have been auctioning underutilized computing resources in their marketplace as spot instances for a much lower price, compared to their on-demand instances. This state of affairs has led the networking community to devote extensive efforts to cloud-assisted networks - the idea of offloading network functionality to cloud platforms, ultimately leading to more flexible and highly composable network service chains.We initiate a critical discussion on the economic and technological aspects of leveraging cloud-assisted networks for Internet-scale interconnections and data transfers. Namely, we investigate the prospect of constructing a large-scale virtualized network provider that does not own any fixed or dedicated resources and runs atop several spot instances. We construct a cloud-assisted overlay as a virtual network provider, by leveraging third-party cloud spot instances. We identify three use case scenarios where such approach will not only be economically and technologically viable but also provide performance benefits compared to current commercial offerings of connectivity and transit providers.Citation
Kathiravelu P, Chiesa M, Marcos P, Canini M, Veiga L (2018) Moving Bits with a Fleet of Shared Virtual Routers. 2018 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2018.8697019.Sponsors
We are thankful to Márcio Santos and Virgil Truica for their insights. This research was supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the ENDEAVOUR project (grant agreement 644960), and national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia with reference UID/CEC/50021/2013.Conference/Event name
17th IFIP Networking Conference IFIP Networking and Workshops, IFIP Networking 2018ISBN
978-3-903176-08-9Additional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8697019ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2018.8697019