Stateless multicast switching in software defined networks

Reed, Martin J.; Al-Naday, Mays; Thomos, Nikolaos; Trossen, Dirk; Petropoulos, George P.; Spirou, Spiros

doi:10.1109/icc.2016.7511036

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“…Standard Software Defined Networking (SDN) switches are used for the FN functionality, a new feature introduced in POINT to simplify deployment in production networks. The SDN switches are unaware of POINT: they are controlled by an SDN controller [6] which communicates with the TM function in a bidirectional fashion. The TM instructs the SDN controller how to configure the SDN switches so as to translate the FIDs included in packets to forwarding actions on their attached links, while the SDN controller informs the TM of any changes in the topology and operation of the network.…”

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IP Over ICN Goes Live

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Thomas

Vasilakos

et al. 2018

2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)

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Information-centric networking (ICN) has long been advocating for radical changes to the IP-based Internet. However, the upgrade challenges that this entails have hindered ICN adoption. To break this loop, the POINT project proposed a hybrid, IP-over-ICN, architecture: IP networks are preserved at the edge, connected to each other over an ICN core. This exploits the key benefits of ICN, enabling individual network operators to improve the performance of their IP-based services, without changing the rest of the Internet. We provide an overview of POINT and outline how it improves upon IP in terms of performance and resilience. Our focus is on the successful trial of the POINT prototype in a production network, where real users operated actual IP-based applications.

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2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)

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“…Opendaylight 2 has been selected as the SDN controller on which to base our implementation since it is the most prominent open-source SDN platform. The required, OpenFlow standard compliant, arbitrary bitmask match support has been implemented and provided to the Opendaylight community 3 . The ICN-aware SDN application is implemented as an Opendaylight Boron SR1 module.…”

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

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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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“…With this we achieve routing as a service by virtue of a softwarized path computation element, with the forwarding being realized over a highly efficient (e.g. SDN-based) forwarding fabric [15]. The software-based routing is realized in ICN components that architecturally represent the rendezvous and topology management functions of existing ICN solutions [6], where such functions can implement a variety of constrain-based routing algorithms, each of which can easily be exchanged in a plug-and-play service manner to accommodate various 5G service requirements.…”

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“…The path computation entity (PCE) performs the joined RV and TM function of our presumed ICN solution, while standard SDN switches are used for the FN function. The PCE interfaces with the SDN controller through standard OpenFlow (OF) interfaces, shown in green [15].…”

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“…The path computation, performed in the TM function, for LIPSINbased forwarding function determines forwarding information that any OpenFlow-compliant switch can easily act upon with simple matching rules, see [15], while the TM function interacts with a standard SDN controller for the setup of those matching rules. All of this is achieved with a purely proactive rule insertion and no need for flow-based state in the SDN switches.…”

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Routing as a Service Solution for IP-Based Services: An Evolutionary Approach to Introducing ICN in the Real World

Kim

Robitzsch

et al. 2016

IEICE Trans. Commun.

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SUMMARY Information-centric networking (ICN) has been positioned for a number of years as a possible replacement to the IP-based Internet architecture with key promises in terms of network efficiency, privacy, security and novel applications. However, such wholesale replacement of the IP-based Internet through a new routing and service infrastructure has always been marred by the difficulties to gain adoption through existing stakeholders and market players, particularly solution providers. In this paper, we provide an evolutionary approach to introducing ICN in the real world by positioning an ICN-based solution as a routing-as-a-service offering for existing IP-based solutions. With this, we enable the expected benefits of ICN for the existing service and application basis of the current Internet. We will outline how we achieve this evolutionary introduction and how existing IP as well as HTTP-based services will be realized. An introduction into our gateway platform will be given, while also outlining first results from a recent showcase deployment.

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Stateless multicast switching in software defined networks

Cited by 32 publications

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IP Over ICN Goes Live

IP Over ICN Goes Live

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

Routing as a Service Solution for IP-Based Services: An Evolutionary Approach to Introducing ICN in the Real World

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