Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Ensuring network reliability is important for satisfying service-level objectives. However, diagnosing network anomalies in a timely fashion is difficult due to the complex nature of network configurations. We present Monocle --- a system that uncovers forwarding problems due to hardware or software failures in switches, by verifying that the data plane corresponds to the view that an SDN controller installs via the control plane. Monocle works by systematically probing the switch data plane; the probes are constructed by formulating the switch forwarding table logic as a Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. Our SAT formulation quickly generates probe packets targeting a particular rule considering both existing and new rules. Monocle can monitor not only static flow tables (as is currently typically the case), but also dynamic networks with frequent flow table changes. Our evaluation shows that Monocle is capable of finegrained monitoring for the majority of rules, and it can identify a rule suddenly missing from the data plane or misbehaving in a matter of seconds. Also, during network updates Monocle helps controllers cope with switches that exhibit transient inconsistencies between their control and data plane states. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2015 | 10.1145/2716281.2836117 | CoNEXT |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Forwarding plane,Control theory,Computer science,Boolean satisfiability problem,Network packet,Computer network,Communications system,Reliability (computer networking),Software-defined networking,Routing table,Distributed computing | Conference | 19 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.70 | 16 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Perešíni | 1 | 375 | 21.98 |
| maciej kuzniar | 2 | 19 | 0.70 |
| Dejan Kostic | 3 | 1707 | 119.11 |