Toward control path high availability for software-defined networks

  • Hyungbae Park
  • , Sejun Song
  • , Baek Young Choi
  • , Taesang Choi

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Abstract

High Availability (HA) is one of the most critical requirements in real network operation. Provisioning redundancies, enabling failure detections and notifications, supporting a state synchronization, and invoking failure mitigation have been the essential steps to achieve the HA feature. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging networking paradigm that centralizes the control plane by separating it from the data plane. In this paper, we identify that SDN poses more complex HA issues due to a new network domain between the control and data planes which is called the control path. It poses many critical challenges on the existing HA mechanisms to achieve the same Service Level Agreement (SLA) of HA for the services in the SDN environment. To address this problem, we propose and implement several control path HA algorithms that enhance performance as well as simplify management of control path HA.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2015 11th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, DRCN 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages165-172
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781479977956
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event2015 11th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, DRCN 2015 - Kansas City, United States
Duration: Mar 24 2015Mar 27 2015

Publication series

Name2015 11th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, DRCN 2015

Conference

Conference2015 11th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, DRCN 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKansas City
Period3/24/153/27/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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