Enhanced Quality of Service Measurement Mechanism of Container-based Cloud Network Architecture

As the growth of development on both network architecture and cloud computing, the existing quality of service (QoS) measurement mechanism in VNF design is not sufficient for the cloud network architecture, especially the development of container technology. It is important for service provider to provide to customers a service level agreement (SLA) on cloud network service by provision of Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) and container network function (CNF). In this paper, we propose an enhanced vQOS (EvQOS) measurement mechanism for container-based network architecture that retains the vQOS in VNF architecture [1] including the TWAMP light (TWL) protocol and the northbound interface design, and provides a containerization architecture and the friendliness of system management and monitoring.