Year: 2017
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: State synchronisation in clustered Software Defined Networking controller deployments ensures that all instances of the controller have the same state information in order to provide redundancy. Current implementations of controllers use a strong consistency model, where configuration changes must be synchronised across a number of instances before they are applied on the network infrastructure. For large deployments, this blocking process increases the delay of state synchronisation across cluster members and consequently has a detrimental effect on network operations that require rapid response, such as fast failover and Quality of Service applications. In this paper, we introduce an adaptive consistency model for SDN Controllers that employs concepts of eventual consistency models along with a novel `cost-based' approach where strict synchronisation is employed for critical operations that affect a large portion of the network resources while less critical changes are periodically propagated across cluster nodes. We use simulation to evaluate our model and demonstrate the potential gains in performance.
Authors: Ermin Sakic, Fragkiskos Sardis, Jochen W. Guck, Wolfgang Kellerer
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2741637020