Title
Fast failure recovery for in-band OpenFlow networks
Abstract
In OpenFlow, control and data plane are decoupled from switches/routers. Direct programming of routers/switches is realised from one or more servers (so called controllers). In the case of an in-band OpenFlow network, the control traffic (traffic to or from the controllers) is sent on the same channel used to transport data traffic. Therefore, when a failure occurs along the data traffic path, both control and data traffic can be affected. This paper explains how failure recovery can be deployed in such a network. To achieve carrier-grade quality, the network should be able to recover from the failure within 50 ms. We apply two well-known recovery mechanisms-restoration and protection- for the control and the data traffic, and run extensive emulation experiments. The emulation results show that restoration does not allow to recover within 50 ms. Moreover, the restoration of the control traffic delays the restoration of the data traffic. The emulation results also show that protection for both control and data traffic can meet the carrier-grade recovery requirement, even in a large-scale network serving many flows.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
DRCN
packet switching,in-band openflow networks,data communication,direct programming,telecommunication network reliability,data traffic path,data traffic restoration,routing protocols,failure recovery,telecommunication control,telecommunication traffic,transport data traffic,carrier grade quality,control traffic delay restoration,control systems,network topology,emulation,servers,protocols,topology
Field
DocType
ISSN
Traffic generation model,Computer science,Floating car data,Computer network,Real-time computing,Emulation,OpenFlow,Traffic shaping,Network traffic simulation,Traffic policing,Network traffic control
Conference
2639-2313
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4799-0049-7
7
0.65
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sachin Sharma120418.86
Dimitri Staessens231728.80
D. Colle31255138.20
Mario Pickavet41000110.08
Piet Demeester53471363.78