Paper Info
Title
Flexible Flow Converging: A Systematic Case Study on Forwarding Plane Programmability of Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding (POF).
Abstract
It is known that software-defined networking (SDN) can support effective traffic engineering (TE) with the global view of networks. Hence, OpenFlow was used to realize flow-based TE. However, there is a tradeoff between the volume of installed flow entries and the granularity of TE. Moreover, the protocol-dependent nature of OpenFlow might limit the flexibility and adaptivity of TE. In this paper, we leverage the protocol-oblivious forwarding technology that can make each switch work as a protocol independent white box and utilize its forwarding plane programmability to design a novel flexible flow converging (F-FC) scheme for realizing SDN-based fine-grained TE. Specifically, we design both the network system and the F-FC algorithms running on it and conduct experiments to demonstrate that our proposed scheme can not only reduce the volume of installed flow entries in switches but also realize fine-grained TE to achieve better utilization on network bandwidth.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2600619
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software defined networking (SDN),protocol-oblivious forwarding (POF),flexible flow converging (F-FC)
Forwarding plane,Algorithm design,Computer science,Bandwidth allocation,White box,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),OpenFlow,Software-defined networking,Traffic engineering,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4
2169-3536
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
22
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daoyun Hu1423.28
Shengru Li2263.29
Huibai Huang3253.90
Wenjian Fang4523.84
Zuqing Zhu556673.36