a service and application independent metric identifying the number of simultaneous sessions that can be handled by a specific service instance or group of instances in an execution zone.
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Service-Centric Networking
David Griffin (University College London, UK), Miguel Rio (University College London, UK), Pieter Simoens (University of Ghent, Belgium), Piet Smet (University of Ghent, Belgium), Frederik Vandeputte (Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV, Belgium), Luc Vermoesen (Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV, Belgium), Dariusz Bursztynowski (Orange, Poland), Folker Schamel (Spinor, Germany), and Michael Franke (Spinor, Germany)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8371-6.ch004
Abstract
This chapter introduces a new paradigm for service centric networking. Building upon recent proposals in the area of information centric networking, a similar treatment of services – where networked software functions, rather than content, are dynamically deployed, replicated and invoked – is discussed. Service-centric networking provides the mechanisms required to deploy replicated service instances across highly distributed networked cloud infrastructures and to route client requests to the closest instance while providing more efficient network infrastructure usage, improved QoS and new business opportunities for application and service providers.