ConForm: In-band Control Plane Formation Protocol to SDN-Based Networks
| Autor: | Juliano Coelho Melo, Flávio de Oliveira Silva, Pedro Frosi Rosa, Marcelo Silva Freitas, Romerson Deiny Oliveira, Diego Nunes Molinos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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OpenFlow
business.industry Computer science 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology In-band control Network topology law.invention Management plane law Internet Protocol 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Forwarding plane Overhead (computing) 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Routing control plane business Protocol (object-oriented programming) Computer network |
| Zdroj: | ICOIN |
| DOI: | 10.1109/icoin48656.2020.9016580 |
| Popis: | Although OpenFlow-based SDN networks make it easier to design and test new protocols, when you think of clean slate architectures, their use is quite limited because the parameterization of its flows resides primarily in TCP/IP protocols. Besides, despite the many benefits that SDN offers, some aspects have not yet been adequately addressed, such as management plane activities, network startup, and options for connecting the data plane to the control plane. Based on these issues and limitations, this work presents a bootstrap protocol for SDN-based networks, which allows, beyond the network topology discovery, automatic configuration of an inband control plane. The protocol is designed to act only on layer two, in an autonomous, distributed and deterministic way, with low overhead and has the intent to be the basement for the implementation of other management plane related activities. A formal specification of the protocol is provided. In addition, an analytical model was created to preview the number of required messages to establish the control plane. According to this model, the proposed protocol presents less overhead than similar de-facto protocols used to topology discovery in SDN networks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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