A new service platform unifying network control and its prototyping

Recently, advanced network services have been provided by assortment of distributed components at low cost. However, network elements are not considered in such a framework. In this paper, we propose a new service platform which unifies componentized network control function. This platform aims to provide advanced services flexibly according to the available network and service resources. To achieve this, we propose a management method for the componentized service/network control function by using distributed databases, and a service generation method based on information from these databases. Finally, the performance and feasibility of the platform are evaluated by simulation experiments and prototyping.