Felipe Vicens

TL;DR: An innovative approach for managing and orchestrating Network Services (NS) is developed, called SONATA, and it is compared with OSM and Cloudify, which are two of the most known open-source Management and Orchestration (MANO) frameworks.

TL;DR: This article introduces the novel concept of a verification and validation (V&V) platform for NFV, which enables automatic testing and qualification of single network functions and complex services and adds such a platform to the NFV ecosystem, new business models emerge, as discussed in this article.

TL;DR: This experience paper gives a thorough overview on the encountered challenges, insights and resulting learnings when implementing and integrating the SONATA Service Platform using a continuous integration and delivery DevOps methodology.

TL;DR: This article describes how to move forward from initial steps, identifies the challenges network service developers face during both development and runtime, and explains how to overcome them with the authors' SCK and programmable MANO framework.

TL;DR: An overview of the design and development of a network slice manager component inside the SONATA Service Platform is provided, able to align with ETSI NFV and 3GPP models.