A demonstration of fast failure recovery in software defined networking

Sachin Sharma, Dimitri Staessens, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester

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Abstract

Software defined networking (SDN) is a recent architectural framework for networking, which aims at decoupling the network control plane from the physical topology and at having the forwarding element controlled through a uniform vendor-agnostic interface. A well-known implementation of SDN is OpenFlow. The core idea of OpenFlow is to provide direct programming of a router or switch to monitor and modify the way in which the individual packets are handled by the device. We describe our implemented fast failure recovery mechanisms (Restoration and Protection) in OpenFlow, capable of recovering from a link failure using an alternative path. In the demonstration, a video clip is streamed from a server to a remote client, which is connected by a network with an emulated German Backbone Network topology. We show switching of the video stream from the faulty path to the fault-free alternative path (restored or protected path) upon failure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTestbeds and Research Infrastructures
Subtitle of host publicationDevelopment of Networks and Communities - 8th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2012, Revised Selected Papers
Pages411-414
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures: Development of Networks and Communities, TridentCom 2012 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 11 Jun 201213 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume44 LNICST
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference8th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures: Development of Networks and Communities, TridentCom 2012
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period11/06/1213/06/12

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