The QueuePusher: Enabling queue management in OpenFlow

David Palma, Joao Goncalves, Bruno Sousa, Luis Cordeiro, Paulo Simoes, Sachin Sharma, Dimitri Staessens

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Abstract

The evolution of Software-Defined Networking and the overall acceptance of protocols such as OpenFlow, demonstrates the added value of decoupling the data plane from the control plane. Existing SDN Controllers enable the expected flexibility from such networks by dynamically providing a fine-grained control of each flow. However, hardware-specific configurations, such as the creation of queues or other mechanisms is out of the scope of these controllers. This work presents an extension to a well known OpenFlow controller (Floodlight) to efficiently handle the management of Traffic Control Queues in OpenFlow switches, resorting to a RESTful northbound interface. The obtained results demonstrate further possibility of developing innovative on-demand resource reservation mechanisms in SDN without adding unbearable overheads.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2014 3rd European Workshop on Software-Defined Networks, EWSDN 2014
EditorsHolger Karl, Robert Szabo, Hagen Woesner
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages125-126
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781479969197
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Dec 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd European Workshop on Software-Defined Networks, EWSDN 2014 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 1 Sep 20143 Sep 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2014 3rd European Workshop on Software-Defined Networks, EWSDN 2014

Conference

Conference3rd European Workshop on Software-Defined Networks, EWSDN 2014
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period1/09/143/09/14

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