Design and Implementation of a Cloud-Federation Agent for Software Defined Networking

Author

Gaul, Constantin ; Korner, Marc ; Kao, Odej

Author_Institution

Complex & Distrib. IT Syst., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

9-13 March 2015

Firstpage

323

Lastpage

328

Abstract

This paper introduces a cloud-federation agent which enables a horizontal network federation between different cloud providers, based on Software Defined Networking (SDN). Furthermore, tenants, using the cloud´s Infrastructureas a Service (IaaS) model, have a fine grained access to the resources via an exposed Open Flow interface, deployed on top of the SDN router´s virtualized control plane. This provides complete management and control capabilities of a virtual SDN (vSDN) substrate and gives tenants the freedom to deploy virtual network-appliances or services using Network Function Virtualization (NFV) on top of the allocated vSDN.

Keywords

cloud computing; software defined networking; virtualisation; IaaS model; NFV; OpenFlow interface; cloud providers; cloud-federation agent; control capabilities; horizontal network federation; infrastructure as a service model; management capabilities; network function virtualization; software defined networking; vSDN substrate; virtual SDN substrate; virtual network-appliances; virtualized control plane; Authentication; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Home appliances; Resource management; Switches; Virtual machining; Cloud-Federation; OpenFlow; Software Defined Networking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tempe, AZ

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IC2E.2015.58

Filename

7092938