ieHDDP: An Integrated Solution for Topology Discovery and Automatic In-Band Control Channel Establishment for Hybrid SDN Environments

In-Band enhanced Hybrid Domain Discovery Protocol (ieHDDP) is a novel integral approach for hybrid Software-Defined Networking (SDN) environments that simultaneously providesa topology discovery service and an autonomous control channel configuration in the band. This contribution is particularly re...

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Autores: Álvarez Horcajo, Joaquín|||0000-0002-8522-9933, Martinez Yelmo, Isaias|||0000-0001-9648-8669, Rojas Sánchez, Elisa|||0000-0002-6385-2628, Carral Pelayo, Juan Antonio|||0000-0002-5545-9463, Carrascal Acebron, David|||0000-0002-6982-9365
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/67697
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/67697
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym14040756
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:hybrid
SDN
In-band control channel
Topology discovery
OpenFlow
Electrónica
Electronics
Descrição
Resumo:In-Band enhanced Hybrid Domain Discovery Protocol (ieHDDP) is a novel integral approach for hybrid Software-Defined Networking (SDN) environments that simultaneously providesa topology discovery service and an autonomous control channel configuration in the band. This contribution is particularly relevant since, to the best of our knowledge, it is the first all-in-one proposal for SDN capable of collecting the entire topology information (type of devices, links, etc.) and establishing in-band control channels at once in hybrid SDN environments (composed by SDN/no-SDN, wired/wireless devices), even with isolated SDN devices. ieHDDP facilitates the integration of heterogeneous networks, for example, in 5G/6G scenarios, and the deployment of SDN devices by using a simple exploration mechanism to gather all the required topological information and learn the necessary routes between the control and data planes at the same time. ieHDDP has been implemented in a well-known SDN software switch and evaluated in a comprehensive set of randomizedtopologies, acknowledging that ieHDDP is scalable in representative scenarios.