Performance Evaluation Framework + Helper Tools

Common - Manifests:

• Updated manifests to expose metrics endpoint (context, device, DLT, interdomain, monitoring, pathcomp, service, slice)
• Defined service monitors (context, device, DLT, interdomain, monitoring, pathcomp, service, slice)
• Updated default replicas for pathcomp and service components to 5

Common - Proto:

• DLT connector: added flag to delete records

Common - Method Wrappers:

• Defined README.md file with commands and relevant references
• Added performance evaluation preliminary results as a reference for future improvements
• Unified RPC method wrapper with performance evaluation
• Defined testing deploy specs script
• Defined Grafana dashboards to report performnace of RPC methods of components, Device Drivers, and Service Handlers
• Updated unitary tests of former RPC method wrapper

Common - Load Descriptor:

• Removed incorrect instruction in descriptor loader

Common - Object Factory:

• Added object factory methods for L2NM services
• Improved object-factry slice-related methods

Common - Constants:

• Increased default gRPC workers from 10 to 200

Common - Deploy script:

• Removed scaledown+scaleup during deploy (useless)
• Updated deploy.sh script to handle service monitor CRDs

Compute component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API

Context component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API

DBScan component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API

Device component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API
• Updated Device Drivers with Method Wrapper API for performance evaluation

Device component - Transport API driver:

• Improved endpoint type definition

Device component - MicroWave driver:

• Added support for user/pass basic authentication
• Added HTTP schema settings
• added field to filter desired underlying devices under management
• Corrected endpoint uuid composition
• Improved error handling
• Improved retrieval of existing services

DLT component - Connector:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API
• Factorized Record* methods
• Implemented RecordService method
• Implemented delete of records

Interdomain component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API

OpticalAttackMitigator component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API

OpticalCentralizedAttackDetector component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API

PathComp component - Backend:

• Increased number of allowed edges from 10 to 20

PathComp component - Frontend:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API
• Reduced log levels for messages raised by _Algorithm class
• Added mutex to prevent issuing multiple calls to the backend at the same time

Service component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API
• Added close to pathcomp compute request to enforce load balancing of requests
• Updated Service Handlers with Method Wrapper API for performance evaluation

Service component - MicroWave service handler:

• Corrected service resource keys
• Corrected endpoint count in set/delete endpoint methods

Slice component:

• Updated gRPC Servicer to new Method Wrapper API

Tools - Load Generator:

• Created new parametrizable load generator tool to stress TeraFlowSDN
• Added README.md file
• Added support for L2NM/L3NM/TAPI/MicroWave services
• Added support for slices
• Added support to stress DLT component with operations triggered by the load generator for performance evaluation (disabled by default)
• Added example deploy specs script for the load generator tool
• Added helper script to run the tool
• Added example descriptor file to populate the scenario

Tools - Load Scenario:

• Created new tool to load scenarios from descriptor files from command line
• Added README.md file
• Added helper script to run the tool
• Added example descriptor file