A design of an ICN architecture within the framework of SDN

Eum, Suyong; Jibiki, Masahiro; Murata, Masayuki; Asaeda, Hitoshi; Nishinaga, Nozomu

doi:10.1109/icufn.2015.7182521

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“…ICN packets are transferred over any IP transport protocol. Eum et al [11] suggest a similar mechanism for federated sensor networks, embedding ICN forwarding identifiers to UDP header fields.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

OpenFlow-compliant topology management for SDN-enabled Information Centric Networks

Petropoulos

Κατσαρός

Xezonaki

2017

2017 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)

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Abstract-Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as an interesting approach to overcome many of the limitations of legacy IP-based networks. However, the drastic changes to legacy infrastructure required to realise an ICN have significantly hindered its adoption by network operators. As a result, alternative deployment strategies are investigated, with SoftwareDefined Networking (SDN) arising as a solution compatible with legacy infrastructure, thus opening new possibilities for integrating ICN concepts in operators' networks. This paper discusses the seamless integration of these two architectural paradigms and suggests a scalable and dynamic network topology bootstrapping and management framework to deploy and operate ICN topologies over SDN-enabled operator networks. We describe the designed protocol and supporting mechanisms, as well as the minimum required implementation to realize this inter-operability. A proof-of-concept prototype has been implemented to validate the feasibility of the approach. Results show that topology bootstrapping time is not significantly affected by the topology size, substantially facilitating the intelligent management of an ICN-enabled network. I. MOTIVATIONInformation-centric networking (ICN) and software defined networking (SDN) have emerged to address the rapid increase in traffic demands and operational requirements of business applications. However, the majority of ICN propositions suggest replacing legacy network protocols and infrastructure with information-centric alternatives. This brings severe barriers to the adoption of the ICN paradigm, as network operators resist such costly and disruptive changes. On the other hand, SDN builds on backward compatibility, facilitating adoption by network and service providers, which have already started incorporating SDN capabilities into their networks. The emergence of SDN creates new opportunities for deploying the novel routing mechanisms brought by the ICN paradigm, bringing its adoption by Internet stakeholders closer to reality.Focusing on backward compatibility, POINT [1] takes an alternative migration path that suggests the realization of legacy IP services on top of ICN and enabling the network operators to benefit from ICN core functions e.g., multicast and in-network caching. The envisioned strategy includes the deployment of gateways at the edges of IP networks, to map IP-based protocols to ICN semantics, whilst supporting ICN in the network core. The network core design subsequently builds on SDN primitives to enable an IP/backwards-compatible architecture utilizing the PURSUIT [2] publish/subscribe communication paradigm. SDN switching [3] is employed for the support of a source-routing forwarding mechanism [4], enabling stateless, fast and scalable content forwarding. This allows the seamless deployment of ICN topologies over SDN networks and opens a potential migration path for ICN from Internet stakeholders.In this context, support for this transparent ICN operation heavily depends on the appropriate conf...

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

OpenFlow-compliant topology management for SDN-enabled Information Centric Networks

Petropoulos

Κατσαρός

Xezonaki

2017

2017 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)

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“…The OF protocol allows the switches to parse only a limited set of fields from an incoming packet, particularly it is not possible to parse the data field at the UDP layer. Following the approach introduced in other works,() we piggyback the NDN semantics in the UDP/IP header fields. Specifically, we compute a fingerprint of the content name and store it in the UDP source and destination ports.…”

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Efficient caching through stateful SDN in named data networking

Mahmood

Casetti

Chiasserini

et al. 2017

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

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Named data networking (NDN) is an innovative paradigm to provide content-based services in future networks. As compared with legacy networks, naming of network packets and in-network caching of content make NDN more feasible for content dissemination. However, the implementation of NDN requires drastic changes to the existing network infrastructure. One feasible approach is to use software-defined networking (SDN), according to which the control of the network is delegated to a centralized controller, which configures the forwarding data plane. This approach leads to large signaling overhead and large end-to-end delays. In order to overcome these issues, we propose to enable NDN using a stateful data plane in the SDN network. In particular, we realize the functionality of an NDN node using a stateful SDN switch attached with a local cache for content storage and use OpenState to implement such an approach. In our solution, no involvement of the controller is required once the OpenState switch has been configured. We benchmark the performance of our solution against the traditional SDN approach considering several relevant metrics. Experimental results highlight the benefits of a stateful approach and of our implementation, which avoids signaling overhead and significantly reduces end-to-end delays.

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“…In [25], an NDN architecture is proposed in the SDN framework for heterogeneous networks such as sensor networks. The motivation of combining these two networks in this paper is the flexible management and the ability for continuous evolution of network architectures in SDN, and also efficient data dissemination via name routing and in-network caching in NDN.…”

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Implementing NDN Using Sdn: A Review on Methods and Applications

Rowshanrad

Parsaei

Keshtgari

2016

IIUMEJ

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In recent years many claims about the limitations of todaysâ€™ network architecture, its lack of flexibility and ability to response to ongoing changes and increasing users demands. In this regard, new network architectures are proposed. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is one of these new architectures which centralizes the control of network by separating control plane from data plane. This separation leads to intelligence, flexibility and easier control in computer networks. One of the advantages of this framework is the ability to implement and test new protocols and architectures in actual networks without any concern of interruption.Named Data Networking (NDN) is another paradigm for future network architecture. With NDN the network becomes aware of the content that is providing, rather than just transferring it among end-points. NDN attracts researchersâ€™ attention and known as the potential future of networking and internet. Providing NDN functionalities over SDN is an important requirement to enable the innovation and optimization of network resources. In this paper first we describe about SDN and NDN, and then we introduce methods for implementing NDN using SDN. We also point out the advantages and applications of implementing NDN over SDN.

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A design of an ICN architecture within the framework of SDN

Cited by 26 publications

References 11 publications

OpenFlow-compliant topology management for SDN-enabled Information Centric Networks

OpenFlow-compliant topology management for SDN-enabled Information Centric Networks

Efficient caching through stateful SDN in named data networking

Implementing NDN Using Sdn: A Review on Methods and Applications

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