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vim-emu

This is OSM's emulation platform.

This emulation platform was created to support network service developers to locally prototype and test complete network service chains in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the network service developer's machine. The emulation platform is based on Containernet.

A short demo that showcases vim-emu together with its dummy gatekeeper is available here.

Documentation

1. Introduction
2. Architecture
3. APIs
4. Usage
   • Tutorial: Getting Started
     • Workflow
     • Topology definition
     • Deploy empty docker containers
     • Deploy a 5GTANGO service package
     • 5GTANGO LLCM Instance specific ENVs
     • 5GTANGO LLCM Placement
     • Example of a simple snort setup
   • Tutorial: LLCM curl examples
5. Build and installation

Cite this work

If you use vim-emu for your research and/or other publications, please cite the following paper to reference our work:

• M. Peuster, H. Karl and S. van Rossem, "MeDICINE: Rapid prototyping of production-ready network services in multi-PoP environments," 2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 148-153. doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490
  • Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7919490/
  • Pre-print: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05995

Tutorials

• Containernet and SONATA Emulator demo/tutorial (Summerschool 2017, Karlstad, Sweden)
• SONATA Emulator to MANO integration demo (IEEE NetSoft 2017, Bologna, Italy)

Videos

• Demo: A Fully Integrated Multi-Platform NFV SDK (2018)
• Demo: A Flexible Multi-PoP Infrastructure Emulator for Carrier-grade MANO Systems (2017)
• Talk: SONATA SDK: Rapid prototyping of network services using an integrated DevOps toolchain
• vim-emu controlled by OSM (tech. preview)
• Demo: SONATA SDK Y1 review
• vim-emu installation (2016, outdated)

Work based on vim-emu

• M. Peuster, H. Karl, and S. v. Rossem: MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments. IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, pp. 148-153. doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490. (2016)

• S. v. Rossem, W. Tavernier, M. Peuster, D. Colle, M. Pickavet and P. Demeester: Monitoring and debugging using an SDK for NFV-powered telecom applications. IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, Demo Session. (2016)

• M. Peuster, H. Karl: Understand Your Chains: Towards Performance Profile-based Network Service Management. Accepted in Fifth European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (EWSDN). IEEE. (2016)

• M. Peuster, S. Dräxler, H. Razzaghi, S. v. Rossem, W. Tavernier and H. Karl: A Flexible Multi-PoP Infrastructure Emulator for Carrier-grade MANO Systems. In IEEE 3rd Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) Demo Track . (2017) Best demo award!

• M. Peuster and H. Karl: Profile Your Chains, Not Functions: Automated Network Service Profiling in DevOps Environments. IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Berlin, Germany. (2017)

References

• Containernet
• Mininet