DevoFlow: scaling flow management for high-performance networks

By Andrew R. Curtis, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Jean Tourrilhes, Praveen Yalagandula, P. Sharma, S. Banerjee. Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2011

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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OFLOPS: An Open Framework for OpenFlow Switch Evaluation (2012, background): “[6] discuss some design limitations of the protocol when deployed in large network environments.”
A Survey on Software-Defined Network and OpenFlow: From Concept to Implementation (2014, background): “For example, in [81] authors have measured the flow”
Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey (2013, methodology): “Recent research efforts have been carried to deploy OpenFlow in data center networks [41], [62], [63].”
Heavy-Hitter Detection Entirely in the Data Plane (2016, background): “Further, identifying such “heavy hitters” at small time scales (comparable to traffic variations [1, 5]) can enable dynamic routing of heavy flows [16, 35] and dynamic flow scheduling [41].”
Abstractions for network update (2012, background): “Wildcard cloning: An alternative mechanism exploits the wildcard clone feature of the DevoFlow extension of OpenFlow [17].”
Planck (2014, methodology): “To emulate previous traffic engineering projects that rely on polling [2, 6], we implement a global first fit routing algorithm that greedily reroutes every flow either once a second, which is referenced by the name Poll-1s, or once every 100 ms, which is called Poll-0.”
FloodGuard: A DoS Attack Prevention Extension in Software-Defined Networks (2015, background): “While there are many studies and solutions on the scalability issue [20], [12], [10], [32], [14], there is very little research on the even more challenging security issue.”
On Controller Performance in Software-Defined Networks (2012, methodology): “, [6, 18]) to address perceived architectural inefficiencies.”
Dynamic Controller Provisioning in Software Defined Networks (2013, background): “DevoFlow [5] and DIFANE [16] falls in the first category of techniques.”
Software Defined Networking Architecture, Security and Energy Efficiency: A Survey (2017, background): “DevoFlow load balancing has been implemented in [142] in enterprise networks and data center environments to reduce the burden on controller by providing the switches with a set of additional wild card rules and minimize the overall energy consumption.”
SoftCell: scalable and flexible cellular core network architecture (2013, methodology): “the access switch, similar to the DevoFlow “clone” function [16].”
A survey: Control plane scalability issues and approaches in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) (2017, methodology): “In this subsection, we present everal SDN architectures [50,51,56] that leverage the data plane y devolving some limited control functions (such as sending rules o other network devices to be added, deleted or updated in their ow tables etc.”
SIMPLE-fying middlebox policy enforcement using SDN (2013, background): “Challenge = Data plane constraints: SDN switches are limited by the number of forwarding rules they can support; these rules are in TCAM and a switch can support a few thousand rules (e.g., 1500 TCAM entries in 5406zl switch [14]).”
Improving network management with software defined networking (2013, background): “[1] [2] ● Procera has four control domains — time, data usage, authentication status, and traffic flow.”