Ethane: taking control of the enterprise

By Martín Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker. Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2007

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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A Survey of Security in Software Defined Networks (2016, background): “Ethane [4] then extended the work of SANE but with an approach that”
A Survey on Software-Defined Network and OpenFlow: From Concept to Implementation (2014, methodology): “[79]), delegating control to a remote system has raised a number of questions on control-plane scaling implications of such an approach.”
ElasticTree: Saving Energy in Data Center Networks (2010, neutral): “5 “Replicating the Controller: Fault-Tolerance and Scalability” in [5].”
Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications (2017, methodology): “larly limited support for fault tolerance. Global control store and scheduling. The concept of logically centralizing the control plane has been previously proposed in software deﬁned networks (SDNs) [16], distributed ﬁle systems (e.g., GFS [23]), resource management (e.g., Omega [52]), and distribu”
PayLess: A low cost network monitoring framework for Software Defined Networks (2014, background): “2network users can be identified in the way as described in [24] ods, an application may provide a link to a customized monitoring method.”
Cellular, Wide-Area, and Non-Terrestrial IoT: A Survey on 5G Advances and the Road Toward 6G (2021, background): “[290, 291] Devices in the SDN architecture handle packets based on flow tables setup at the SDN controller.”
SoftRAN: software defined radio access network (2013, background): “CellSDN [7], similar to SDN for wired networks [5], attempts to centralize the control plane for cellular core networks.”
Towards an elastic distributed SDN controller (2013, background): “Towards an Elastic Distributed SDN Controller Advait Dixit, Fang Hao, Sarit Mukherjee, T.V. Lakshman, Ramana Kompella Purdue University, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent ABSTRACT Distributed controllers have been proposed for Software De.ned Networking to address the issues of scalability and reliability”
Network traffic characteristics of data centers in the wild (2010, background): “Prior work [5] showed than it takes reactive controllers, which make decisions at flow start up time, approximately 10ms to install flow entries for new flows.”
DevoFlow: scaling flow management for high-performance networks (2011, background): “Our work here derives from a long line of related work that aims to allow operators to specify high-level policies at a logically centralized controller, which are then enforced across the network without the headache of manually crafting switch-by-switch conﬁgurations [10,12,25,26].”
A Survey and a Layered Taxonomy of Software-Defined Networking (2014, methodology): “To broaden the vision of control and data plane separation, researchers explored clean-slate architectures for logically centralized control such as 4D [6], SANE [8], Ethane [9].”
SIMPLE-fying middlebox policy enforcement using SDN (2013, background): “Software-Defined Networking (SDN) offers a promising alternative for middlebox policy enforcement by using logically centralized management, decoupling the data and control planes, and providing the ability to programmatically configure forwarding rules [12].”
Onix: A Distributed Control Platform for Large-scale Production Networks (2010, background): “Second, Onix allows for aggregation in which the network managed by a cluster of Onix nodes appears as a single node in a separate cluster’s NIB.”
Maestro: A System for Scalable OpenFlow Control (2010, background): “Ethane [4], the predecessor of NOX and OpenFlow, is an early flow-based networking technology for creating secure enterprise networks.”
Satellite Communications in the New Space Era: A Survey and Future Challenges (2020, background): “greater interest on the part of the academy. Subsequently, in the late of 2000s emerged some network designs that included a practical deployment and operation such as the developed by Ethane Project [262] and the development of the standardized Openﬂow (OF) API interface [263], that ﬁnally triggere”
Software Defined Optical Networks (SDONs): A Comprehensive Survey (2015, background): “1) Flow-based Access Control: Network Access Control (NAC) is a networking application that regulates the access to network services [242], [379].”
AVANT-GUARD: scalable and vigilant switch flow management in software-defined networks (2013, background): “As enterprise networks and data centers expand in size and complexity, they pose greater administrative challenges and demand enhanced automation in orchestrating their computer and network resources.”