SmartPacket: Re-Distributing the Routing Intelligence among Network Components in SDNs
Abstract
In this work, a new region-based, multipath-enabled packet routing is presented and called SmartPacket Routing. The proposed approach provides several opportunities to re-distribute the smartness and decision making among various elements of a network including the packets themselves toward providing a decentralized solution for SDNs. This would bring efficiency and scalability, and therefore also lower environmental footprint for the ever-growing networks. In particular, a region-based representation of the network topology is proposed which is then used to describe the routing actions along the possible paths for a packet flow. In addition to a region stack that expresses a partial or full regional path of a packet, QoS requirements of the packet (or its associated flow) is considered in the packet header in order to enable possible QoS-aware routing at region level without requiring a centralized controller.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.0501,
title = {SmartPacket: Re-Distributing the Routing Intelligence among Network Components in SDNs},
author = {Reza Farrahi Moghaddam and Mohamed Cheriet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0501},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables. To be presented in SDS 2015, 9-13 March 2015, Tempe, AZ, USA