CloudNaaS: a cloud networking platform for enterprise applications

  • Authors:
  • Theophilus Benson;Aditya Akella;Anees Shaikh;Sambit Sahu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin--Madison;University of Wisconsin--Madison;IBM TJ Watson Research Center;IBM TJ Watson Research Center

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Enterprises today face several challenges when hosting line-of-business applications in the cloud. Central to many of these challenges is the limited support for control over cloud network functions, such as, the ability to ensure security, performance guarantees or isolation, and to flexibly interpose middleboxes in application deployments. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a novel cloud networking system called CloudNaaS. Customers can leverage CloudNaaS to deploy applications augmented with a rich and extensible set of network functions such as virtual network isolation, custom addressing, service differentiation, and flexible interposition of various middleboxes. CloudNaaS primitives are directly implemented within the cloud infrastructure itself using high-speed programmable network elements, making CloudNaaS highly efficient. We evaluate an OpenFlow-based prototype of CloudNaaS and find that it can be used to instantiate a variety of network functions in the cloud, and that its performance is robust even in the face of large numbers of provisioned services and link/device failures.