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TY - JOUR
T1 - OFLOPS-SUME and the art of switch characterization
AU - Oudin, Remi
AU - Antichi, Gianni
AU - Rotsos, Charalampos
AU - Moore, Andrew W.
AU - Uhlig, Steve
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PY - 2018/9/27
Y1 - 2018/9/27
N2 - The philosophy of SDN has introduced new challenges in network system management. In contrast to traditional network devices that contained both the control and the data plane functionality in a tightly coupled manner, SDN technologies separate the two network planes, and define a remote API for low-level device configuration. Nonetheless, the enhanced flexibility of the SDN paradigm is prone to create novel performance and scalability bottlenecks in the network. To help network managers and application developers better understand the actual behavior of SDN implementations, we present a hardware/software co-design that enables switch characterization at 40Gbps and beyond. We conduct an evaluation of both software and hardware switches. We expose the unwanted effects of the OpenFlow barrier primitive, potential misbehaviors when adding or modifying a batch of rules and how simple operations, such as packet modification, can impact the switch forwarding performance.We release the code publicly as open source to promote experiments reproducibility, as well as encourage the network community to evolve our solution.
AB - The philosophy of SDN has introduced new challenges in network system management. In contrast to traditional network devices that contained both the control and the data plane functionality in a tightly coupled manner, SDN technologies separate the two network planes, and define a remote API for low-level device configuration. Nonetheless, the enhanced flexibility of the SDN paradigm is prone to create novel performance and scalability bottlenecks in the network. To help network managers and application developers better understand the actual behavior of SDN implementations, we present a hardware/software co-design that enables switch characterization at 40Gbps and beyond. We conduct an evaluation of both software and hardware switches. We expose the unwanted effects of the OpenFlow barrier primitive, potential misbehaviors when adding or modifying a batch of rules and how simple operations, such as packet modification, can impact the switch forwarding performance.We release the code publicly as open source to promote experiments reproducibility, as well as encourage the network community to evolve our solution.
U2 - 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2871235
DO - 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2871235
M3 - Special issue
JO - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
JF - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
SN - 0733-8716
ER -