Control Path Management Framework for Enhancing Software-Defined Network (SDN) Reliability

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 302-316

  Song, Sejun ^a   Park, Hyungbae ^b   Choi, Baek Young ^a   Choi, Taesang ^c   Zhu, Henry ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^d CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

control path network; reliability; scalability; Software defined networking

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RELIABILITY; SCALABILITY; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

CONTROL PATH; CRITICAL CHALLENGES; MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS; NETWORK RELIABILITY; PRIORITIZATION SYSTEMS; REAL NETWORK SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN);

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 85020922710     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2017.2669082     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. H. Park, S. Song, B.-Y. Choi, and T. Choi, "Toward control path high availability for software-defined networks," in Proc. IEEE DRCN, Kansas City, MO, USA, 2015, pp. 165-172.
2. H. Yan et al., "Tesseract: A 4D network control plane," in Proc. USENIX Symp. NSDI, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2007, p. 27.
3. M. Casado et al., "Ethane: Taking control of the enterprise," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., vol. 37. Kyoto, Japan, 2007, pp. 1-12.
4. N. MaKeown et al., "OpenFlow: Enabling innovation in campus networks," Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 69-74, 2008.
5. OpenFlow Switch Specification Version 1.5.1. (Mar. 2015). [Online]. Available: https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-switch-v1.5.1.pdf
6. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP). (Mar. 2007). [Online]. Available: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12-2sb/feature/guide/gigeth.html
7. EtherChannels. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750x-3560x/software/release/12-2-55-se/configuration/guide/3750xscg/swethchl.html
8. IP Multicast Load Splitting-Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP). Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12-2sr/12-2srb/feature/guide/srbmpath.html
9. Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6. (Mar. 2010). [Online]. Available: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5798
10. Cisco Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). (Mar. 1998). [Online]. Available: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2281.txt
11. Resilient Packet Ring (RPR). Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.ieee802.org/17/documents.htm
12. Non-Stop Routing (NSR). Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute-ospf/configuration/15-e/iro-15-e-book/iro-nsr-ospf.html
13. Graceful OSPF Restart: Non-Stop Forwarding (NSF). (Nov. 2003). [Online]. Available: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3623
14. Stateful Switch-Over (SSO). Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12-0s/feature/guide/sso120s.html
15. Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS). (Oct. 2003). [Online]. Available: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3619
16. Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS). Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/cether/configuration/xe-3s/ce-xe-3s-book/ce-g8032-ering-pro.html
17. Fast Re-Routing (FRR). (May 2005). [Online]. Available: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4090
18. D. Williams and H. Jamjoom, "Cementing high availability in openflow with RuleBricks," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop HotSDN, Hong Kong, 2013, pp. 139-144.
19. M. Desai and T. Nandagopal, "Coping with link failures in centralized control plane architecture," in Proc. IEEE COMSNET, Bengaluru, India, 2010, pp. 1-10.
20. J. Kempf et al., "Scalable fault management for OpenFlow," in Proc. IEEE ICC, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2012, pp. 6606-6610.
21. H. Kim et al., "CORONET: Fault tolerance for software defined networks," in Proc. IEEE ICNP, Austin, TX, USA, 2012, pp. 1-2.
22. A. R. Curtis et al., "DevoFlow: Scaling flow management for highperformance networks," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2011, pp. 254-265.
23. K. Nguyen, Q. T. Minh, and S. Yamada, "A software-defined networking approach for disaster-resilient WANs," in Proc. ICCCN, Nassau, Bahamas, 2013, pp. 1-3.
24. J. Li, J. Hyun, J.-H. Yoo, S. Baik, and J. W.-K. Hong, "Scalable failover method for data center networks using OpenFlow," in Proc. IEEE NOMS, Kraków, Poland, 2014, pp. 1-6.
25. B. Stephens, A. L. Cox, and S. Rixner, "Plinko: Building provably resilient forwarding tables," in Proc. ACM HotNets, College Park, MD, USA, 2013, Art. no. 26.
26. Y. Zhang, S. Natarajan, X. Huang, N. Beheshti, and R. Manghirmalani, "A compressive method for maintaining forwarding states in SDN controller," in Proc. ACM HotSDN, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014, pp. 139-144.
27. D. Li et al., "High availability for non-stop network controller," in Proc. IEEE WoWMoM, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2014, pp. 1-5.
28. B. Heller, R. Sherwood, and N. McKeown, "The controller placement problem," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM HotSDN, Helsinki, Finland, 2012, pp. 7-12.
29. L. F. Müller, R. R. Oliveira, M. C. Luizelli, L. P. Gaspary, and M. P. Barcellos, "Survivor: An enhanced controller placement strategy for improving SDN survivability," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Austin, TX, USA, 2014, pp. 1909-1915.
30. F. Botelho, F. M. V. Ramos, D. Kreutz, and A. Bessani, "On the feasibility of a consistent and fault-tolerant data store for SDNs," in Proc. Eur. Workshop Softw. Defined Netw. (EWSDN), Berlin, Germany, 2013, pp. 38-43.
31. A. Tootoonchian and Y. Ganjali, "HyperFlow: A distributed control plane for OpenFlow," in Proc. Internet Netw. Manag. Conf. Res. Enterprise Netw. (INM/WREN), San Jose, CA, USA, 2010, p. 3.
32. T. Koponen et al., "Onix: A distributed control platform for large-scale production networks," in Proc. USENIX Conf. OSDI, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2010, pp. 351-364.
33. P. Fonseca, R. Bennesby, E. Mota, and A. Passito, "A replication component for resilient OpenFlow-based networking," in Proc. IEEE NOMS, 2012, pp. 933-939.
34. S. Jain et al., "B4: Experience with a globally-deployed software defined WAN," in Proc. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., Hong Kong, 2013, pp. 3-14.
35. P. Berde et al., "ONOS: Towards an open, distributed SDN OS," in Proc. HotSDN, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014, pp. 1-6.
36. Z. Cai, A. L. Cox, and T. S. E. Ng, "Maestro: A system for scalable OpenFlow control," Dept. Comput. Sci., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA, Tech. Rep. TR10-11, Dec. 2010.
37. M. A. S. Santos et al., "Decentralizing SDN's control plane," in Proc. IEEE LCN, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2014, pp. 402-405.
38. S. Sharma, D. Staessens, D. Colle, M. Pickavet, and P. Demeester, "A demonstration of automatic bootstrapping of resilient OpenFlow networks," in Proc. IFIP/IEEE IM, Ghent, Belgium, 2013, pp. 1066-1067.
39. S. Sharma, D. Staessens, D. Colle, M. Pickavet, and P. Demeester, "Fast failure recovery for in-band OpenFlow networks," in Proc. IEEE DRCN, Budapest, Hungary, 2013, pp. 52-59.
40. F. J. Ros and P. M. Ruiz, "Five nines of southbound reliability in software-defined networks," in Proc. HotSDN, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014, pp. 31-36.
41. A. S. da Silva, P. Smith, A. Mauthe, and A. Schaeffer-Filho, "Resilience support in software-defined networking: A survey," Comput. Netw., vol. 92, pp. 189-207, Dec. 2015.
42. Production Quality, Multilayer Open Virtual Switch (Open vSwitch). Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://openvswitch.org/
43. Project Floodlight. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.projectfloodlight.org/floodlight/
44. packETH. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://packeth.sourceforge.net/packeth/Home.html
45. A. Dixit, F. Hao, S. Mukherjee, T. V. Lakshman, and R. Kompella, "Towards an elastic distributed SDN controller," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop HotSDN, Hong Kong, 2013, pp. 7-12.
46. A. Dixit, F. Hao, S. Mukherjee, T. V. Lakshman, and R. Kompella, "ElastiCon: An elastic distributed SDN controller," in Proc. ACM ANCS, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2014, pp. 17-28.
47. OF-Config 1.2: OpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol. (2014). [Online]. Available: https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow-config/ofconfig- 1.2.pdf
48. S. Kandula, S. Sengupta, A. Greenberg, P. Patel, and R. Chaiken, "The nature of data center traffic: Measurements and analysis," in Proc. ACM IMC, Chicago, IL, USA, 2009, pp. 202-208.
49. A. Tavakoli, M. Casado, T. Koponen, and S. Shenker, "Applying NOX to the datacenter," in Proc. HotNets, New York, NY, USA, 2009. [Online]. Available: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2009/program.html
50. The Art of Application-Centric Networking. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns1015/ns175/ns348/ns1126/cisco-td-030513-fin.pdf
51. Unified QoS-Locally Generated Packet Prioritization. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12-0s/feature/guide/unif-qos.pdf
52. The Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol (OVSDB). Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfaff-ovsdb-proto-02
53. Project Floodlight: Module Applications. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://floodlight.atlassian.net/wiki/display/floodlightcontroller/Module+Applications
54. Curl Man Page. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
55. JSON Data Interchange Standard. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.json.org/
56. GitHub: Open Source Parser Jsoncpp. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp
57. Mininet. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.mininet.org
58. IRIS: The Recursive SDN OpenFlow Controller by ETRI. Accessed on Feb. 22, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://openiris.etri.re.kr/