Abstract
The OpenFlow (OF) protocol is widely used in
Software Defined Networking (SDN) to realize the
communication between the controller and forwarding devices.
OF allows great flexibility in managing traffic flows. However,
OF alone is not enough to build more complex SDN services that
require complete control and management of the data plane (e.g.
configurations of ports, queues, etc.). The current work
contributes to the SDN ecosystem with the implementation of a
plugin for the OVSDB protocol, for an existing SDN controller
(SDNC). OVSDB complements OF with management
functionality such as configuration of devices, ports, queues, etc.
An Application Programming Interface (API) for dynamic
configuration of QoS resources in the network devices is
implemented herein, by using the capabilities of OVSDB.
Further, the paper demonstrates the possibility to create network
services with coarse granularity on top of the fine granular
services exposed by the QoS configuration API at the SDNC. A
series of tests emphasize the capabilities and the performance of
the implemented QoS configuration API.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of IEEE NetSoft 2015 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4799-7899-1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 2015 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization - University College London, London, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Apr 2015 → 17 Apr 2015 Conference number: 1 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7111753/proceeding |
Conference
| Conference | 2015 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization |
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| Number | 1 |
| Location | University College London |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | London |
| Period | 13/04/2015 → 17/04/2015 |
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Keywords
- Software Defined Networking
- OpenFlow
- QoS
- Network management
- Open vSwitch
- Application programming interface