VNFO-DCSC: A Novel Secure End-to-End NFV Marketplace Using Dynamic Composite Smart Contracts

Abstract

Recently, the integration of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) with the blockchain has been gaining a lot of attention. This combination aims to avoid traditional NFV issues such as trust, payment, and security. Several works have been proposed to orchestrate, buy, execute, and manage the life cycle of a Virtual Network Function (VNF). Thus, they came as NFV marketplaces and orchestration platforms. In this paper, we provide a novel secure End-to-End NFV marketplace called “VNFO-DCSC”, that uses dynamic composite smart contracts. This platform provides full orchestration, management, execution, and monitoring of VNFs in a secure way. “VNFO-DCSC” is implemented following the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standards [1] for NFV management and it is available on GitHub.