Paper Info
Title
Overcoming the memory limits of network devices in SDN-enabled data centers.
Abstract
In extremely connected and dynamic environments, such as data centers, SDN network devices can be exploited to simplify the management of network provisioning. However, they leverage on TCAMs to implement the flow tables, i.e., on size-limited memories that can be quickly filled up when fine-grained traffic control is required, eventually preventing the installation of new forwarding rules. In this work, we demonstrate how this issue can be mitigated by means of a novel flow rule swapping mechanism. Specifically, we first show the negative effects of a full TCAM on a video streaming service provided by an SDN-enabled data center. Then, we show that our swapping mechanism helps in overcoming the inability to properly access a media content available in the data center, by temporarily moving the least matched flow rules from the TCAM to a larger memory outside the SDN device.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
IM
Synchronization,Content-addressable memory,Computer science,Server,Networking hardware,Computer network,Provisioning,Memory management,Distributed database,Data center,Distributed computing
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Marsico131.11
Roberto Doriguzzi Corin211614.39
Domenico Siracusa37119.37