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Evolution of MANO Towards the Cloud-Native Paradigm for the Edge Computing

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The Management and Orchestration framework (MANO) is the main element of the Network Function Virtualization paradigm. It is in charge of managing the life cycle of virtualized functions, from instantiation to manageability, live configuration, and termination. This kind of framework was originally designed to orchestrate network functions over virtual machines. However, the Cloud-Native approach, based on containers and microservices, has emerged and needs to be included as a part of MANO, to leverage all the inherent benefits that it brings. This contribution identifies the key enablers that have to be addressed, from the MANO perspective, to fully exploit the capabilities and to obtain real added value from implementing this novel approach, focusing mainly on resource-constrained environments. Besides, an analysis of current status of open-source frameworks aiming at the Cloud-Native adaptation is presented, showing that while Cloud-Native approaches vís-a-vis network functions are widely accepted (at least, by the research community), there is still room for further research and integration.

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  • MANO
  • Cloud-Native
  • NFV
  • Edge computing

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This work is part of ASSIST-IoT project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 957258.

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  1. Communications Department, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Alejandro Fornés-Leal, Ignacio Lacalle, Rafael Vaño, Carlos E. Palau & Fernando Boronat

  2. Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

    Maria Ganzha & Marcin Paprzycki

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    Sanjoy Das

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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Fornés-Leal, A. et al. (2022). Evolution of MANO Towards the Cloud-Native Paradigm for the Edge Computing. In: Shaw, R.N., Das, S., Piuri, V., Bianchini, M. (eds) Advanced Computing and Intelligent Technologies. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 914. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2980-9_1

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