NDLI: Providing a High Level Abstraction for SDN Networks in GENI

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rivera, P.S. Zongming Fei Griffioen, J.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Lab. for Adv. Networking, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA (Rivera, P.S.; Zongming Fei; Griffioen, J.)
Abstract	Software Defined Networks make it possible to decouple routing from forwarding, allowing the routing decisions to be made by a (logically)centralized controller which are then communicated to the switches in the network (for example, via the Open Flow protocol). One problem facing end users is the need to map high level abstractions - like the path a flow should take - to a set of low level forwarding rules tailored to, and installed at, every switch along the path. Installing such rules manually is tedious and error prone, and writing a controller program to do it is equally, if not more, challenging. In this paper, we propose a new set of tools that allow users (experimenters)to easily map their high level routing policies to low level Open Flow rules, and to help users reverse engineer high level policies from the installed set of low level flow rules. The tools provide users with the abstraction of end-to-end flows that users can install, list, and delete. The tools automatically handle the details of computing and installing all the rules needed to implement end-to-end flows, and are also capable of identifying flows and, if desired, removing flows that already exist. The tools have been implemented as modules in the GENI Desktop providing users with a graphical interface to their flows. In addition, we have implemented a module to monitor the performance of flows that have been installed. We describe our prototype implementation and present performance numbers obtained via the service.
Starting Page	64
Ending Page	71
File Size	612800
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467373036
DOI	10.1109/ICDCSW.2015.22
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-06-29
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Monitoring Control systems Graphical user interfaces Topology Ports (Computers) Protocols Routing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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