AI-Assisted Service Virtualization and Flow Management Framework for 6G-Enabled Cloud-Software-Defined Network-Based IoT

Abstract

The sixth-generation (6G) communication technology provides a high level of interoperability through terahertz data transfer and latency-less service sharing. Due to its interoperable nature, the integration of heterogeneous networks, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud radio access networks (CRANs), is performed at ease. This integration is managed using software-defined networks (SDNs) for managing the Quality of Service (QoS) experience of the users, irrespective of the application. This manuscript proposes the service virtualization and flow management framework (SVFMF) for the reliable utilization of resources in the 6G-cloud environment. The imbalance in a service request and response due to overloaded and idle virtual resources is addressed in this framework. For this purpose, this framework endorses service virtualization and user allocation modules for mitigating the drawbacks of imbalanced service allocations. Linear decision making of the service virtualization process helps to reduce the computation and service discovery by identifying overloaded services and performing a reallocation. The purpose of user allocation is to distribute the service requests to the idle service providers to reduce the prolonged wait time of the increasing user requests. The performance of the proposed framework is verified using experimental analyses, for the metrics service discovery and computation time, service failure ratio, and flows. The reliability of SVFMF is proved by varying the density of users, virtual machines, service requests, and user allocation per virtual machine, respectively.