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Towards an elastic distributed SDN controller

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Sarit Mukherjee,

Ramana KompellaAuthors Info & Claims

HotSDN '13: Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking

Pages 7 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/2491185.2491193

Published: 16 August 2013 Publication History

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Distributed controllers have been proposed for Software Defined Networking to address the issues of scalability and reliability that a centralized controller suffers from. One key limitation of the distributed controllers is that the mapping between a switch and a controller is statically configured, which may result in uneven load distribution among the controllers. To address this problem, we propose ElastiCon, an elastic distributed controller architecture in which the controller pool is dynamically grown or shrunk according to traffic conditions and the load is dynamically shifted across controllers. We propose a novel switch migration protocol for enabling such load shifting, which conforms with the Openflow standard. We also build a prototype to demonstrate the efficacy of our design.

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Index Terms

Towards an elastic distributed SDN controller
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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HotSDN '13: Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking

August 2013

182 pages

ISBN:9781450321785

DOI:10.1145/2491185

Program Chairs:
Nate Foster
Cornell University
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Big Switch Networks

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 43, Issue 4
October 2013
595 pages
ISSN:0146-4833
DOI:10.1145/2534169
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