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Compiling minimum incremental update for modular SDN languages

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Bo Yang,

Kai BuAuthors Info & Claims

HotSDN '14: Proceedings of the third workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking

Pages 193 - 198

https://doi.org/10.1145/2620728.2620733

Published: 22 August 2014 Publication History

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Measurement results show that updating rules on switches poses major latency overhead during the course of the policy update. However, current SDN policy compilers do not handle policy updates well and generate large amount of redundant rule updates, most of which modify only the priority field. Our analysis shows that the lack of knowledge on the rule dependency and the consecutively distributed priority numbers are the fundamental problems behind the redundancy. In this paper, we propose to tackle the problems through 1) an extended policy compiler that builds rule dependency along with the compilation, and 2) an online optimization algorithm that maintains a scattered priority distribution. Our preliminary evaluation demonstrates that our proposed patch can eliminate nearly all the priority updates.

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HotSDN '14: Proceedings of the third workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking

August 2014

252 pages

ISBN:9781450329897

DOI:10.1145/2620728

Program Chairs:
Aditya Akella
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Albert Greenberg
Microsoft, USA

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