Abstract:
Programmable network architectures facilitate
dynamically updatable functionality to enable selective
and trusted third parties on-demand service
deployment. Resource and security management of
such architectures on shared infrastructure have
proven as challenging tasks. This is due to the extent of
functionality provided to users and the heterogenous
nature of service resource requirements and resource
availability. In this paper we present a new
programmable network platform that enables safe
sharing by providing each trusted user (e.g., an
Internet Service Provider) with a secure, separate, and
resource assured partition, representing a ‘virtual
router’, to accommodate their services. To allocate
router internal resources among these partitions and
among competing services within a partition, this
paper uses a new scalable and adaptive mechanism
called Control plane-Quality of Service (C-QoS).
