Paper Info
Title
SPARC: Towards a Scalable Distributed Control Plane Architecture for Protocol-Oblivious SDN Networks
Abstract
High-level programming abstraction and large-scale deployment have become two important trends of software-defined networking (SDN) in the past decade. Using high-level program to manage the large-scale network faces more serious control plane extensibility problem due to its complex intermediate representation and protocol-independent feature. To address this problem, we propose SPARC, a programmable and scalable controller architecture, which employs a hybrid hierarchical structure to maximize flexibility with regard to control plane distribution. Our architecture also allows for pushing down control decision making closer to the data plane and localize network event processing to lower the latency of control plane operations while exploiting SDN's global visibility to build optimal policy decisions. Furthermore, we investigate the feasibility of SPARC by exemplifying the case of delivering ICN mobility services and then conduct evaluations to demonstrate the efficacy of our design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICCCN.2019.8846931
2019 28th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
SPARC,scalable distributed control plane architecture,protocol-oblivious SDN networks,software-defined networking,hybrid hierarchical structure,data plane,network event processing,control plane operations,programmable and scalable controller architecture
Forwarding plane,Architecture,Software deployment,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Complex event processing,Process control,Extensibility,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1095-2055
978-1-7281-1857-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingzheng Li111.04
Xiaodong Wang282.83
Haojie Tong300.34
Tong Liu44712.77
Ye Tian520819.85