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ZTMP: Zero Touch Management Provisioning Algorithm for the On-boarding of Cloud-native Virtual Network Functions

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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an approach to virtualizing network services that traditionally run on proprietary hardware, such as firewalls, routers, and load balancers. The NFV cloud is a data center network built to host, deploy, and service Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Currently, the Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) spends much time in auto interoperability test sessions to initiate new network services. Hence, auto lifecycle management has become an underlying concern for NFV automation. We implemented a Zero Touch Management Provisioning (ZTMP) algorithm with the following strategies: 1) VNF onboarding through cloud-native DevOps automation 2) vCloud NFV network for performing zero-touch operations 3) Auto-provisioning of policy-based lifecycle management for ZTMP PoD deployment. NFV networks delivered their infrastructure components (Compute, Network, and Storage) in 5.8 minutes compared to the current operational parsing time. The key performance indicator measures the performance of VNFs, where the agility of software-based networks is increased to 87.44% through the dynamic orchestration of network services. There is an uplift in operational time and a decrease in time consumption in legacy networks due to ZTMP.

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The authors would like to thank the support from NGNLab, Department of Computer Technology, Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai 600044, India.

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  1. Gunasekaran Raja, Ali Kashif Bashir, Aniket Mahanti and Marwan Omar are contributed equally to this work.

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  1. School of Computer Science Engineering and Information Systems, VIT University, Vellore, India

    Arunkumar Arulappan

  2. NGNLab, Department of Computer Technology, Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai, India

    Gunasekaran Raja

  3. Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Ali Kashif Bashir

  4. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Aniket Mahanti

  5. Department of Information Technology and Management, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

    Marwan Omar

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Arulappan, A., Raja, G., Bashir, A.K. et al. ZTMP: Zero Touch Management Provisioning Algorithm for the On-boarding of Cloud-native Virtual Network Functions. Mobile Netw Appl (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-023-02260-1

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