Execution plans for serverless computing in information centric networking

Abstract

Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a modern networking concept which enables users to address named data directly by their name, without knowing the location where the data is stored. Since requesting static data is only a special case of requesting processed data, Named Function Networking (NFN) is a generalization of ICN by providing the possibility to define how data should be processed before they are delivered. Thereby, the network decides, where to process the data. The decision where to process data is crucial for the performance and the load on the network, especially when NFN is used within a data center. In this paper we discuss how NFN forwarding decisions can be improved and how to plan an execution of a computation in a name-based network to improve the execution performance. A plan is a list of instruction how and where to execute a computation. To create a plan, the network finds the best way to execute a computation regarding to a predefined metric. Furthermore, we present an extension for reusing plans and creating templates.