Network as a Service for Next Generation Internet (Duan, Q. and Wang, S.; 2017) [Book Review

Abstract

he concept of delivering Network as a Service (NaaS) is enabled mainly by three approaches, which combined are attracting more and more attention: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Software Defined Networking (SDN). This book addresses all of these three topics, and therefore is a timely work presenting up-to-date research areas. The book is divided into 16 chapters. The book is a valuable source of information about integration of SOA, NFV, and SDN regarding the development of the NaaS concept. Basic ideas, principles and architectures are carefully described for most of the aspects. Such preliminary information is often followed by practical considerations, optimization problems, or numerical results. A broad perspective of addressed aspects is another advantage of the book, making it an interdisciplinary work. The most important drawback of the book regards the fact that each chapter forms a separate work. Therefore, some basic ideas are presented more than once in the book. This especially concerns introductory sections of chapters. To sum up, even taking into account the mentioned minor drawbacks, the book is recommended for readers interested in network softwarization and cloudification processes.