How Software Aging affects SDN: A view on the controllers

Author

Alencar, Felipe ; Santos, Marcos ; Santana, Matheus ; Fernandes, Sueli

Author_Institution

Center of Inf. (CIn), Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Software-Defined Networking proposes a new paradigm by separating the control plane from the data plane. The control plane´s main responsibility is deployed in a centralized component called SDN controller. Therefore, the SDN based network becomes dependent on a single functional entity (although it may have multiple instances) in order to accomplish its routing and policy rules. The SDN controller is vulnerable to degradation due to a well-known phenomenon called Software Aging. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first that assesses the impacts of software aging on current implementation of SDN controllers. We show that such a phenomenon must not be neglected in future software architecture designs and implementations.

Keywords

computer networks; software architecture; software reliability; SDN controller; control plane; data plane; software aging phenomenon; software architecture; software-defined networking; Aging; Control systems; Java; Memory management; Random access memory; Software; SDN Controllers; Software Aging; Software Defined Networking (SDN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), 2014

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GIIS.2014.6934264

Filename

6934264