ETDP: enhanced topology discovery protocol for software-defined networks
Discovering network elements in a dynamic and optimized manner and being able to contend with ever-growing traffic is a key requirement for current networking environments. In software-defined networks (SDNs), the controller collects the topology information from the data plane and maintains an abst...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/132949 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/132949 https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2899653 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Computer network protocols Network management Protocols Software-defined networks Topology discovery Protocols de xarxes d'ordinadors Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors::Protocols de comunicació |
| Sumario: | Discovering network elements in a dynamic and optimized manner and being able to contend with ever-growing traffic is a key requirement for current networking environments. In software-defined networks (SDNs), the controller collects the topology information from the data plane and maintains an abstract view of the entire network, which is crucial for the proper functioning of applications and network services. However, there is still the need for an enhanced protocol for automatic discovery and mechanisms of autoconfiguration of network elements according to new policies and business requirements. To overcome this challenge, this paper presents a novel protocol that, unlike existing approaches, enables a distributed layer-2 discovery without the need for previous network configurations or controller knowledge of the network. By using this mechanism, the SDN controller can discover the network view without incurring scalability issues, while taking advantage of the shortest control paths toward each switch. The obtained results show that our enhanced protocol is efficient in terms of time and message load over a wide range of generated networks and outperforms the state-of-the-art techniques. |
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