Title
Cooperative Rule Caching for SDN Switches
Abstract
Despite the tremendous success of SDNs in datacenters, their wide adoption still poses a key challenge: the packet-forwarding rules in switches require fast and power-hungry memories. Rule tables, which serve as caches, are of limited size in cheap and energy-constrained devices, motivating novel solutions to achieve high hit rates. In this paper, we leverage device connectivity in the fast data plane, where delays are in the order of few milliseconds, and propose multiple switches to work together to avoid accessing the control plane, where delays are orders of magnitude greater. As a low priority rule in a cache entails caching higher priority rules, we pose the problem of cooperative caching with dependencies. We provide models and algorithms for cooperative rule caching with dependencies, accounting for dependencies among rules implied by existing switch memory types. We develop caching algorithms for several typical use cases and study the difficulty to find an optimal cooperative rule placement as a function of the matching pattern, which lay the foundations of cooperative caching with dependencies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CloudNet51028.2020.9335795
2020 IEEE 9th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
SDN switches,packet-forwarding rules,energy-constrained devices,fast data plane,switch memory types,optimal cooperative rule placement,device connectivity,higher priority rules,cooperative rule caching,matching pattern
Conference
978-1-7281-9487-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ori Rottenstreich197.31
Ariel Kulik220.36
Ananya Joshi320.36
Jennifer Rexford4143781195.34
Gábor Rétvári519424.87
Daniel S. Menasché620.36