Paper Info
Title
OpenCounter: Counting unknown flows in Software Defined Networks
Abstract
The software defined paradigm is recently emerging as a very promising approach to simplify the way complex network applications are designed and integrated in large scale network scenarios. Typical examples of network-wide applications that may well benefit for such an approach are monitoring and security applications that collect information from multiple vantage points to provide higher lever analyses. In this context, this paper adopts the software defined approach to propose a novel distributed architecture that permits to effectively count the number of unknown flows in an SDN network, allowing the development of several monitoring security applications on top of it. The presented work relies on standard OpenFlow switches and on ad-hoc probabilistic variations of the sketch data structure. The proposed architecture is fully seamless for the underlying network behavior and the performance analysis carried out in laboratory test-bed proves its practical effectiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/SPECTS.2015.7285295
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
software defined networking,ad-hoc probabilistic variations,distributed architecture,monitoring security applications,opencounter,software defined networks,standard OpenFlow switches,unknown flows,Cardinality Estimation,LogLog Counting Algorithm,Network Traffic Monitoring,Reversible Sketch,Software Defined network
Data structure,Architecture,Computer science,Computer network,OpenFlow,Software,Complex network,Probabilistic logic,Software-defined networking,Sketch,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Callegari111.70
Stefano Giordano260986.56
Michele Pagano319831.51
Gregorio Procissi424926.53