Presentation 2015-12-17
A Study of Method for Updating Network Configuration to Avoid Loops and Packet Loss in Software-Defined Network
Yansen Xu, Shu Kimura, Ved P. Kafle,
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Abstract(in English) Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new approach to networking which decouples the control plane and data plane. Configuration changes are very common in the SDN networks to adapt a new topology and services. However, failing to perform update in the configurations consistently can introduce inconsistency problems. The inconsistency problems may cause the network to behave incorrectly such as creating of routing loops or misleading packets into black holes. In this paper, we discuss the inconsistency problems and present a scheme to avoid loops and packet loss during updating network configuration by analyzing and classifying relation between a new forwarding path and the old forwarding path. We conduct an experiment to verify our scheme and discuss our scheme by comparing it with related work.
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Keyword(in English) software-defined network / network configuration update / inconsistency problem / packet loop and loss
Paper # IN2015-81
Date of Issue 2015-12-10 (IN)

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Committee IN / IA
Conference Date 2015/12/17(2days)
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Place (in English) Hiroshima City University
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Topics (in English) Performance Analysis and Simulation, Robustness, Traffic and Throughput Measurement, Quality of Service (QoS) Control, Congestion Control, Overlay Network/P2P, IPv6, Multicast, Routing, DDoS, etc.
Chair Hidetsugu Kobayashi(NTT) / Ken-ichi Yoshida(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Vice Chair Katsunori Yamaoka(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Hiroyuki Osaki(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) / Masahiro Jibiki(NICT) / Yutaka Nakamura(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Katsunori Yamaoka(NTT) / Hiroyuki Osaki(KDDI) / Masahiro Jibiki(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yutaka Nakamura(Osaka Univ.)
Assistant Yuichi Sudo(NTT) / Kunitake Kaneko(Keio Univ.) / Yuichiro Hei(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Hiroshi Yamamoto(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Toshiki Watanabe(NEC)

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Title (in English) A Study of Method for Updating Network Configuration to Avoid Loops and Packet Loss in Software-Defined Network
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) software-defined network
Keyword(2) network configuration update
Keyword(3) inconsistency problem
Keyword(4) packet loop and loss
1st Author's Name Yansen Xu
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
2nd Author's Name Shu Kimura
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
3rd Author's Name Ved P. Kafle
3rd Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
Date 2015-12-17
Paper # IN2015-81
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) IN-370
Page pp.pp.59-64(IN),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-12-10 (IN)