DISCO: Distributed multi-domain SDN controllers

By Kevin Phemius, Mathieu Bouet, Jérémie Leguay. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2013

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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is now envisioned for Wide Area Networks (WAN) and constrained overlay networks. Such networks require a resilient, scalable and easily extensible SDN control plane. In this paper, we propose DISCO, an extensible DIstributed SDN COntrol plane able to cope with the distributed and heterogeneous nature of modern overlay networks. A DISCO controller manages its own network domain and communicates with other controllers to provide end-to-end network services. This east-west communication is based on a lightweight and highly manageable control channel. We implemented DISCO on top of the Floodlight OpenFlow controller and the AMQP protocol and we evaluated it through an inter-domain topology disruption use case.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Security for 5G and Beyond (2019, neutral): “Further approaches to increase controller resiliency against security lapses include distributed control plane [211], [212], [213], controller placement [214], [215], control plane redundancy [216], and reactive vs proactive controller flow rule setup and updates [217].”
Distributed SDN Control: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges (2018, methodology): “DISCO and D-SDN: For instance, the DISCO project [59] suggests a logically distributed control plane architecture that operates in such multi-domain heterogeneous environments, more precisely WANs and overlay networks.”
Software Defined Optical Networks (SDONs): A Comprehensive Survey (2015, background): “Multidomain research [457] has now taken interest in the Intent-Based Networking (NBI) paradigm for SDN control, where Intent-APIs can solve the problems of spanning across multiple domains.”
Security in Software Defined Networks: A Survey (2015, neutral): “The distributed SDN control plane (DISCO) is presented in [58], [59] to provide control plane functionalities to distributed, heterogeneous, and overlay networks.”
User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks: A Survey of Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions (2021, methodology): “Nominally, such an approach requires phase-synchronization among the DUs [64], which could be a challenge, especially when the DUs serving the user are under the control of different CUs.”
InSDN: A Novel SDN Intrusion Dataset (2020, background): “However, authors in [68], [69] claim that the different controllers can have different security modeling, and therefore, different countermeasures.”