GANA-VDC: Application-Aware with Bandwidth Guarantee in Cloud Datacenters

Allocating bandwidth guarantees to applications in the cloud has become increasingly demanding and essential as applications compete to share cloud network resources. However, cloud-computing providers offer no network bandwidth guarantees in a cloud environment, predictably preventing tenants from running their applications. Existing schemes offer tenants practical cluster abstraction solutions emulating underlying physical network resources, proving impractical; however, providing virtual network abstractions has remained an essential step in the right direction. In this paper, we consider the requirements for enabling the application-aware network with bandwidth guarantees in a Virtual Data Center (VDC). We design GANA-VDC, a network virtualization framework supporting VDC application-aware networking with bandwidth guarantees in a cloud datacenter. GANA-VDC achieves scalability using an interceptor to translate OpenFlow features to prompt fine-grained Quality of Service (QoS). Facilitating the expression of diverse network resource demands, we also propose a new Virtual Network (VN) to Physical Network (PN) mapping approach, Graph Abstraction Network Architecture (GANA), which we innovatively introduce in this paper, allowing tenants to provide applications with cloud networking environment, thereby increasing the preservation performance. Our results show GANA-VDC can provide bandwidth guarantee and achieve low time complexity, yielding higher network utility.