Title :
Distributed Control Plane for 4D Architecture
Author :
Iqbal, Hammad ; Znati, Taieb
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Abstract :
We explore the design of a logically centralized but physically distributed control plane for 4D architecture. 4D architecture proposes centralization of network-wide decision making state and logic in a logical control plane to ease the management complexity of data networks. However, the current design implementations of the 4D control plane are limited to physical centralization. We argue that exploration of physically distributed control plane designs would be beneficial to the scalability and practical deployment of the architecture, and present design guidelines for different routing strategies that can be used to optimize the deployment of distributed 4D architecture.
Keywords :
IP networks; centralised control; computational complexity; computer network management; control system synthesis; decision making; distributed control; telecommunication control; telecommunication network routing; 4D architecture; IP networks; centralized 4D control plane; data network management complexity; logical control plane; network-wide decision making; physical centralization; physically distributed control plane design; routing strategies; Centralized control; Computer architecture; Computer network management; Computer networks; Delay; Design optimization; Distributed computing; Distributed control; IP networks; Robustness;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2007. GLOBECOM '07. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1042-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1043-9
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.365
