Title
Netography: Troubleshoot your network with packet behavior in SDN.
Abstract
Network troubleshooting is always a tough and daunting task for network operators to struggle with, due to difficultly observed network state, large network size and limited tools such as ping and traceroute. Software-defined networking (SDN) brings us the centralized network control and the customized network management over the entire network, which enables new ways of network troubleshooting. Previous efforts focus on static checking, passive monitoring and active probing, which rely on scraping rules from either controller or network devices. Since those rules describe the actions supposed to be performed on packets, the actions having been performed on packets can be different. We propose the concept of packet behavior to describe the real changes of packets and highlight its importance towards network troubleshooting. Based on the novel approach of exporting packet behavior and flow rules via copies triggered by probes being actively sent, we present the design of Netography system and illustrate the procedures of troubleshooting tasks regarding forwarding errors as well as performance degradation caused by non-tenant-contention reasons. We implement a prototype and verify our system on a small deployment with three typical use cases.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
Computer science,Computer network,Network simulation,Network architecture,Network operations center,Network management,Network traffic control,Packet forwarding,Network management station,Intelligent computer network,Distributed computing
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1542-1201
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yusu Zhao161.53
pengfei zhang231.10
Yaohui Jin314329.65