Flexible Traffic Engineering: When OpenFlow Meets Multi-Protocol IP-Forwarding

Autor: Daoyun Hu, Zuqing Zhu, S. Y. Li, Yan Shao, Nana Xue, Shengru Li, Shoujiang Ma
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: IEEE Communications Letters. 18:1699-1702
ISSN: 2373-7891
1089-7798
DOI: 10.1109/lcomm.2014.2349991
Popis: In this letter, we present flexible traffic engineering (F-TE), a solution to achieve highly efficient traffic engineering in a hybrid network where IPv4 and IPv6 protocols co-exist. By leveraging the programmability of OpenFlow (OF), we design the OF system to facilitate IP forwarding interchanging (i.e., switching the packets between IPv4 and IPv6 at each hop according to the network status). The OF system is implemented in a real network testbed. We conduct experiments with video streaming to verify that the proposed F-TE can improve network throughput effectively with adaptive IP interchanging.
Databáze: OpenAIRE