Flexible Flow Converging: A Systematic Case Study on Forwarding Plane Programmability of Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding (POF)
| Autor: | Shengru Li, Daoyun Hu, Wenjian Fang, Huibai Huang, Zuqing Zhu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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OpenFlow
General Computer Science Software defined networking (SDN) Computer science business.industry Distributed computing General Engineering 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology flexible flow converging (F-FC) Bandwidth allocation Traffic engineering 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Forwarding plane 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing General Materials Science Algorithm design lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering Software-defined networking business lcsh:TK1-9971 protocol-oblivious forwarding (POF) Computer network |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Access, Vol 4, Pp 4707-4719 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
| Popis: | It is known that software-defined networking (SDN) can support effective traffic engineering (TE) with the global view of networks. Hence, OpenFlow was used to realize flow-based TE. However, there is a tradeoff between the volume of installed flow entries and the granularity of TE. Moreover, the protocol-dependent nature of OpenFlow might limit the flexibility and adaptivity of TE. In this paper, we leverage the protocol-oblivious forwarding technology that can make each switch work as a protocol-independent white box and utilize its forwarding plane programmability to design a novel flexible flow converging (F-FC) scheme for realizing SDN-based fine-grained TE. Specifically, we design both the network system and the F-FC algorithms running on it and conduct experiments to demonstrate that our proposed scheme can not only reduce the volume of installed flow entries in switches but also realize fine-grained TE to achieve better utilization on network bandwidth. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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