Improving SDN Scalability with Protocol-Oblivious Source Routing: A System-Level Study
| Autor: | Daoyun Hu, Kai Han, Junjie Liu, Zuqing Zhu, Shui Yu, Qinkun Bao, Nirwan Ansari, Shengru Li |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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OpenFlow
Multicast Computer Networks and Communications Network packet business.industry Computer science Distributed computing Packet processing ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS Packet forwarding 0805 Distributed Computing 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1005 Communications Technologies 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology Source routing 020210 optoelectronics & photonics 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Unicast Software-defined networking business Networking & Telecommunications Computer network |
| Popis: | Software-defined networking (SDN) has been considered as a break-through technology for the next-generation Internet. It enables fine-grained flow control that can make networks more flexible and programmable. However, this might lead to scalability issues due to the possible flow state explosion in SDN switches. SDN-based source routing can reduce the volume of flow-tables significantly by encoding the path information into packet headers. In this paper, we leverage the protocol-oblivious forwarding instruction set to design protocol-oblivious source routing (POSR), which is a protocol-independent, bandwidth-efficient, and flow-table-saving packet forwarding technique. We lay out the packet format for POSR, come up with the packet processing pipelines for realizing unicast, multicast, and link failure recovery, and implement POSR in a protocol-oblivious forwarding-enabled SDN network system. Experiments are then performed in a network testbed, which consists of 14 stand-alone SDN switches, to validate the advantages of POSR. Specifically, we compare POSR with several OpenFlow-based benchmarks for unicast, multicast, and link failure recovery, and confirm that POSR can reduce flow-table utilization effectively, shorten path setup latency and expedite link failure recovery. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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