DistTM: Collaborative Traffic Matrix Estimation in Distributed SDN Control Planes
Key: HSR+16-1
Author: Rhaban Hark, Dominik Stingl, Nils Richerzhagen, Klara Nahrstedt, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: May 2016
Kind: In proceedings
Publisher: IEEE
Book title: Proc. 15th IFIP Networking 2016 Conference (NETWORKING'16)
Keywords: Monitoring, Traffic Matrix, SDN, Distributed Control Plane, B1E, C2, C3
Abstract: Recently, several works propose monitoring approaches for the emerged paradigm of Software-defined Networking. These provide a couple of ideas to retrieve various information about the network state leveraging new concepts for monitoring data collection at flow-level. As existing approaches reduce their scope to networks with a single controller, even sophisticated approaches ignore a potentially great efficiency gap, due to redundant flow measurements by multiple controllers in adjacent networks. To show a possibility how to close this efficiency gap, we propose a solution for collaborative traffic matrix estimation, termed D IST TM. It exploits the property that flows traverse multiple networks and are monitored by several controllers. Through collaboration, the resulting monitoring tasks are coordinated and distributed among participating controllers to capture relevant information about all traversing flows, omitting redundant data collection. Conducted simulations reveal that D IST TM operates efficiently: the monitoring traffic is significantly reduced, while the traffic matrix entry staleness is slightly affected. Furthermore, D IST TM provides different schemes for a fair load balancing on controllers and switches while taking different influencing aspects into consideration.
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