Using P4 to Enable Scalable Intents in Software Defined Networks

Autor: Lyndon Fawcett, Nicholas Race, Benjamin Lewis, Matthew Broadbent
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: ICNP
DOI: 10.1109/icnp.2018.00064
Popis: When designing Software Defined Networks (SDNs), there is a risk that the additional abstractions available can result in reduced scalability and performance. One such abstraction, intents, are a way in which network administrators can express policies rather than having to define specific forwarding rules. This provides a benefit to administrators in allowing automatic network reconfiguration and fault tolerance. In this paper, we highlight the performance overheads associated with the intents framework from a popular SDN controller, ONOS. We propose a novel prototype that leverages source-based routing and programmable data planes using P4 in order to reduce the overheads of intent-based forwarding
Databáze: OpenAIRE