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DevoFlow: cost-effective flow management for high performance enterprise networks

Authors:

Jeffrey C. Mogul,

Jean Tourrilhes,

Praveen Yalagandula,

Andrew R. Curtis,

Sujata BanerjeeAuthors Info & Claims

Hotnets-IX: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

Article No.: 1, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/1868447.1868448

Published: 20 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

The OpenFlow framework enables flow-level control over Ethernet switching, as well as centralized visibility of the flows in the network. OpenFlow's coupling of these features comes with costs, however: the distributed-system costs of involving the OpenFlow controller on flow setups, and the switch-implementation costs of involving the switch's control plane too often.

In this paper, we analyze the overheads, and we propose DevoFlow, a modification of the OpenFlow model in which we try to gently break the coupling between centralized control and centralized visibility, in a way that maintains a useful amount of visibility without imposing unnecessary costs.

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Hotnets-IX: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

October 2010

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ISBN:9781450304092

DOI:10.1145/1868447

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Naval Postgraduate School
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