Title
In-band control, queuing, and failure recovery functionalities for openflow.
Abstract
In OpenFlow, a network as a whole can be controlled from one or more external entities (controllers) using in-band or out-of-band control networks. In this article, we propose in-band control, queuing, and failure recovery functionalities for OpenFlow. In addition, we report experimental studies and practical challenges for implementing these functionalities in existing software packages containing different versions of OpenFlow. The experimental results show that the in-band control functionality is suitable for all types of topologies. The results with the queuing functionality show that control traffic can be served with the highest priority in in-band networks and hence, data traffic cannot affect the communication between the controller and networking devices. The results with the failure recovery functionality show that traffic can be recovered from failures within 50 ms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/MNET.2016.7389839
IEEE Network
Keywords
Field
DocType
Protocols,Servers,IP networks,Switches,Ports (Computers),Internet
Control theory,In-band control,Computer science,Networking hardware,Server,Computer network,Network topology,OpenFlow,Software,Queueing theory,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
1
0890-8044
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.64
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sachin Sharma120418.86
Dimitri Staessens231728.80
D. Colle31255138.20
Mario Pickavet41000110.08
Piet Demeester53471363.78