Security Level:

Towards NFV Reliability and

Beyond

Dr. Feng Liu

Huawei European Research Institute

ETR - RT 2017

Telecom Transformation and Reliability Challenges

COTS

Hardware

Multiple

Layered

System

Multi-vendor

Eco-system

Non-Unified

APIs

MANO

COTS

Cloud OS

VNFVNF … VNF

Infrastructure

Existing network OSS&BSS

Silo Open System

Dedicated Shared

Physical Virtual

Key Principles for Telecom Transformation

Access

NetworksWAN

DC

Hardware resource pooling Distributed software architecture

Elastic scale-in/out

Micro-service Stateless design

Fully automated operations

Self-

serviceSelf-

healing

Self-

deployment

Self-

optimization

Intelligent Self- * Properties for NFV Reliability

Central Repository

Self Deploying

Plan & Design

Deploy

Build &Test

Detection /

Prediction

Decision

Healing

Monitoring

Fault

Management

Library

Closed-Loop

AutomationAssuranceOrchestration

Analytics-

driven

NICS

Self-Optimizing

Self -Healing

Open

& Agile

Resource

Utilization

Zero

Interruption

Why Cross Layer Reliability So Important ?

VM VMVM VM

VNF

Mgt.

Virtualization

Mgt.

Infrastructure

Mgt.

It‘s VNF Mgt !

It‘s virtualization

Mgt !

It‘s infrastructure

Mgt !

Layer CoordinationFault Propagation DynamicDependency

Huawei‘s NFV Cross Layer Reliability

Cro

ss Layer R

elia

bility Recovery

Localization

Detection

Prediction

VM VMVM VM

It‘s NFV Mgt and

much more ! Key Enabling Technologies

≥ 90% < 1s

Intelligent Network Assurance for 2016 Olympic Games

X Stadium 3G User Forecast (BIG data sys)

3G DCHUEs Forecast DCHUEs

Y Stadium PS Throughput (BIG data sys)

Forecast HSDPA Throughput (kbps) HSDPA Throughput (Kbps)

Forecast HSUPA Throughput (kbps) HSUPA Throughput (Kbps)

Data Collection

Building Model

Feature Selection

Anoamly

Detection

Alarming

Beyond: Innovation and Collaboration in NFV Reliability

Research.

Huawei Open for Innovation: Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, TU Berlin Joint

RAS Labs (JRL)

Future-oriented RAS Research

Archieving the competence to sustain the high RAS standards of Huawei products in emerging ICT

areas.

Establishing a leading research laboratory on cutting-edge RAS

technologies .

Customer-oriented RAS Research

Collaborating closely with renowed DT T-Labs on

cutting-edge RAS research topics .

Conducting joint researches programms to support

telecom transformation .

Fundamental & Theoretical Research

Establishing RAS theories and observing the lastest

research diretions in academia. Promoting joint

PhD education and researches.

JRL

Huawei Open for Innovation: A Leading OpNFV Contributor

HW22%

ZTE19%

Ericsson15%

Red Hat12%

Orange10%

Intel8%

ENEA AB5%

Canonical3%

linux foundation2%

AT&T2% Mirantis

2%

CONTRIBUTED COMMITS IN 2017

HUAWEI22%

Intel13%

Cisco11%

Ericsson9%

AT&T7%

Red Hat6%

ZTE6%

CMCC6%

Orange4%

Adavaoptical2%

ARM2%

Canonical2%

Corenova2% EMC

2%

fokus.fraunhofer2%

Juniper2%

Mirantis2%

NEC2%

HUAWEI LEADING 12 PROJECTS IN 2017

HUAWEIIntelCiscoEricssonAT&TRed HatZTECMCCOrangeAdavaopticalARMCanonicalCorenovaEMCfokus.fraunhoferJuniperMirantis

HUAWEI27%

Intel14%

AT&T11%

Ericsson8%

ZTE5%

ARM3%

Canonical3%

Cisco3%

CMCC3%

Corenova3%

EMC3%

Fraunhofer3%

Juniper?3%

Mirantis3%

NEC3%

Orange3%

Redhat3%

Projects in D release

Pinpoint HA for OpNFV Doctor VES

Summarize & Open Discussions

Intelligence

&

Automation

Cross-Layer

&

Coordination

Openness

&

Collaboration

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