Title :
State abstraction and management in software-defined networks
Author :
Dwaraki, Abhishek ; Seetharaman, Srini ; Natarajan, Sriram ; Wolf, Tilman
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Abstract :
SDN-enabled networks offer a great degree of flexibility, programmability and support for multiple applications. Applications running on top of a SDN controller could further benefit if network state information were made available to them as part of the SDN framework. Our work investigates the requirements for abstracting network state on the control plane. We intend to show that, by meeting these pre-requisites, network state can be made available with the guarantee of state safety and integrity. We envision that our state management abstraction will provide safety in the data plane and aid better programmability in the control plane.
Keywords :
software defined networking; telecommunication control; SDN controller; SDN-enabled networks; abstracting network state; control plane; multiple applications; network state information; programmability; software-defined networks; state integrity; state management abstraction; state safety; Concurrent computing; Monitoring; Process control; Programming; Redundancy; Safety; Security;
Conference_Titel :
Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), 2015 ACM/IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Oakland, CA
DOI :
10.1109/ANCS.2015.7110134
