Exploiting ICN for flexible management of software-defined networks
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Exploiting ICN for flexible management of software-defined networks
Arumaithurai, M. ; Chen, J. ; Monticelli, E.; Fu, X. & Ramakrishnan, K. K. (2014)
pp. 107-116. ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2014), Paris, France.
Association for Computing Machinery. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2660129.2660147
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- Authors
- Arumaithurai, Mayutan ; Chen, Jiachen ; Monticelli, Edo; Fu, Xiaoming ; Ramakrishnan, Kadangode K.
- Abstract
- Networks are becoming increasingly complex and service providers incorporate additional functionality in the network to protect, manage and improve service performance. Soft- ware Defined Networking (SDN) seeks to manage the net- work with the help of a (logically) centralized control plane. We observe that current SDN solutions pre-translate policy (what) into forwarding rules at specific switches (where). We argue that this choice limits the dynamicity, flexibility and reliability that a software based network could provide. Information Centric Networking (ICN) shifts the focus of networks away from being predominantly location oriented communication environments. We believe ICN can signifi- cantly improve the flexibility for network management. In this paper, we focus on one of the problems of network man- agement – service chaining – the steering of flows through the different network functions needed, before it is delivered to the destination. We propose Function-Centric Service Chaining (FCSC), a solution that exploits ICN to provide flexibility in managing networks that utilize virtualization to dynamically place functions in the network as required. We use a real-world topology to compare the performance of FCSC and a more “traditional” SDN solution. We show that FCSC reacts to failures with fewer packet drops, adapts to new middleboxes more quickly, and maintains less state in the network.
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Conference
- ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2014)
- ISBN
- 978-1-4503-3206-4
- Conference Place
- Paris, France
- Event start
- 2014-09-24
- Event end
- 2014-09-26
- Language
- English