Title
Dynamic aggregation of traffic flows in SDN: Applied to backhaul networks
Abstract
A challenge in the adoption of the OpenFlow (OF)-based SDN paradigm is related to the limited number of OF rules supported by the network devices. The technology used to implement the OF rules is TCAM, which is expensive and power demanding. Due to this, the network devices are either very costly or they can support a very limited number of OF rules. One way to cope with this limitation, is to perform the same logic but with fewer OF rules in the devices. As a demonstration of this operational strategy, the current paper proposes a service for traffic flow aggregation which reduces the number of OF rules needed in the network devices, without impacting the control plane logic. The proposed traffic flow aggregation service is tested on a set of topologies specific to the backhaul network, since they aggregate a large amount of traffic flows. The results illustrate significant reductions in the number of OF rules in network devices, thus a lower demand on TCAM capacity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/NETSOFT.2016.7502459
2016 IEEE NetSoft Conference and Workshops (NetSoft)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
SDN,OF,aggregation,backhaul,QoS
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Angelos Mimidis162.29
Cosmin Caba284.25
José Soler33111.74