TEDP: an enhanced topology discovery service for Software-Defined Networking

Currently, software-defined networking (SDN) platforms leverage the link-layer discovery protocol (LLDP) to discover the underlying topology. However, the LLDP is suboptimal in terms of message load. In this letter, we present the tree exploration discovery protocol (TEDP), proving that shortest pat...

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Autores: Rojas Sánchez, Elisa|||0000-0002-6385-2628, Álvarez Horcajo, Joaquín|||0000-0002-8522-9933, Martinez Yelmo, Isaias|||0000-0001-9648-8669, Carral Pelayo, Juan Antonio|||0000-0002-5545-9463, Arco Rodríguez, José Manuel|||0000-0001-7752-3561
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/56351
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/56351
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2845372
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:SDN
OpenFlow
Topology discovery
LLDP
Informática
Computer science
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Sumario:Currently, software-defined networking (SDN) platforms leverage the link-layer discovery protocol (LLDP) to discover the underlying topology. However, the LLDP is suboptimal in terms of message load. In this letter, we present the tree exploration discovery protocol (TEDP), proving that shortest paths can be built at the same time that the topology information is gathered, without extra messages compared with LLDP. We also analyze two alternative implementations for the TEDP and give insights into some features that SDN platforms should ideally provide for an efficient topology discovery service.