Multi Topology Routing Based Failure Protection For Software Defined Networks

CEVHER S.

IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), Batumi, Gürcistan, 4 - 07 Haziran 2018, ss.46-50 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
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  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/blackseacom.2018.8433706
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Batumi
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Gürcistan
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.46-50
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The fast recovery from network failures in the data plane of Software Defined Networks (SDN) is a stringent requirement to seamlessly support the real-time communications. IETF standardized Multi Topology Routing (MTR) which provides a redundancy in routing tables by computing virtual topologies (VTs) which differ in their link weights. MTR based failure recovery techniques use VTs each of which assigns a very high weight to certain links in the physical topology so that these links are not traversed by the shortest paths. When a network component actually fails, the routing tables corresponding to the VT isolating the component are activated for traffic forwarding. In this paper, the architecture for MTR based failure protection (MTR-P) in SDN is defined and implemented, and its performance is analyzed using different network topologies. The experimental results expose important properties of MTR-P for fast failure recovery in SDN.