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Flow Delegation: Flow Table Capacity Bottleneck Mitigation for Software-defined Networks

Bauer, Robert

Abstract (englisch):

This dissertation introduces flow delegation, a novel concept to deal with flow table capacity bottlenecks in Software-defined Networks (SDNs). Such bottlenecks occur when SDN switches provide insufficient flow table capacity which can lead to performance degradation and/or network failures. Flow delegation addresses this well-known problem by automatically relocating flow rules from a bottlenecked switch to neighboring switches with spare capacity. Different from existing work, this new approach can be used on-demand in a transparent fashion, i.e., without changes to the network applications or other parts of the infrastructure. The thesis presents a system design and architecture capable of dealing with the numerous practical challenges associated with flow delegation, introduces suitable algorithms to efficiently mitigate bottlenecks taking future knowledge and multiple objectives into account and studies feasibility, performance, overhead, and scalability of the new approach covering different scenarios.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000122318
Veröffentlicht am 05.08.2020
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Telematik (TM)
Publikationstyp Hochschulschrift
Publikationsdatum 05.08.2020
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000122318
Verlag Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Umfang XIII, 418 S.
Art der Arbeit Dissertation
Fakultät Fakultät für Informatik (INFORMATIK)
Institut Institut für Telematik (TM)
Prüfungsdatum 18.05.2020
Schlagwörter Computer networks, Software-defined Networking, SDN, Flow table capacity bottlenecks
Referent/Betreuer Zitterbart, M.
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