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On controller performance in software-defined networks

2012· article· en· 430 citations· W1769222792 on OpenAlex

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Abstract

Network architectures in which the control plane is decoupled from the data plane have been growing in popularity. Among the main arguments for this approach is that it provides a more structured software environment for developing network-wide abstractions while potentially simplifying the data plane. As has been adopted elsewhere [11], we refer to this split architecture as Software-Defined Networking (SDN). While it has been argued that SDN is suitable for some deployment environments (such as homes [17, 13], data centers [1], and the enterprise [5]), delegating control to a remote system has raised a number of questions on control-plane scaling implications of such an approach. Two of the most often voiced concerns are: (a) how fast can the controller respond to data path requests?; and (b) how many data path requests can it handle per second? There are some references to the performance of SDN systems in the literature [16, 5, 3]. For example, an oft-cited study shows that a popular network controller (NOX) handles around 30k flow initiation events1 per second while maintaining a sub-10ms flow install time [14]. Unfortunately, recent measurements of some deployment environments suggests that these numbers are far from sufficient. For example, Kandula et al. [9] found that a 1500-server cluster has a median flow arrival rate of 100k flows per second. Also, Benson et al. [2] show that a network with 100 switches can have spikes of 10M flows arrivals per second in the worst case. In addition, the 10ms flow setup delay of an SDN controller would add a 10% delay to the majority of flows (short-lived) in such a network. This disconnect between relatively poor controller performance and high network demands has motivated a

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The record

Venue
Topic
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Field
Computer Science
Canadian institutions
Solana Networks (Canada)University of Toronto
Funders
not available
Keywords
Forwarding planeSoftware-defined networkingComputer scienceSoftware deploymentController (irrigation)SoftwareData flow diagramRouting control planeDistributed computingComputer networkOperating system
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yes