A declarative and expressive approach to control forwarding paths in carrier-grade networks

R Hartert, S Vissicchio, P Schaus… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
SDN simplifies network management by relying on declarativity (high-level interface) and
expressiveness (network flexibility). We propose a solution to support those features while …

Simplifying {Software-Defined} Network Optimization Using {SOL}

V Heorhiadi, MK Reiter, V Sekar - 13th USENIX Symposium on …, 2016 - usenix.org
Realizing the benefits of SDN for many network management applications (eg, traffic
engineering, service chaining, topology reconfiguration) involves addressing complex …

QR-SDN: Towards reinforcement learning states, actions, and rewards for direct flow routing in software-defined networks

J Rischke, P Sossalla, H Salah, FHP Fitzek… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flow routing can achieve fine-grained network performance optimizations by routing distinct
packet traffic flows over different network paths. While the centralized control of Software …

Revisiting routing control platforms with the eyes and muscles of software-defined networking

CE Rothenberg, MR Nascimento… - Proceedings of the first …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Prior work on centralized Routing Control Platform (RCP) has shown many benefits in
flexible routing, enhanced security, and ISP connectivity management tasks. In this paper …

Exploiting ICN for flexible management of software-defined networks

M Arumaithurai, J Chen, E Monticelli, X Fu… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Networks are becoming increasingly complex and service providers incorporate additional
functionality in the network to protect, manage and improve service performance. Software …

Traffic engineering with segment routing: SDN-based architectural design and open source implementation

L Davoli, L Veltri, PL Ventre… - … on Software Defined …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic Engineering (TE) in IP carrier networks is one of the functions that can benefit from the
Software Defined Networking paradigm. However traditional per-flow routing requires a …

ONOS Intent Monitor and Reroute service: enabling plug&play routing logic

D Sanvito, D Moro, M Gulli, I Filippini… - 2018 4th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) brought an unprecedented flexibility and
programmability into computer networks. In order to simplify the management of an SDN …

CFR-RL: Traffic engineering with reinforcement learning in SDN

J Zhang, M Ye, Z Guo, CY Yen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional Traffic Engineering (TE) solutions can achieve the optimal or near-optimal
performance by rerouting as many flows as possible. However, they do not usually consider …

Don't mind the gap: Bridging network-wide objectives and device-level configurations

R Beckett, R Mahajan, T Millstein, J Padhye… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We develop Propane, a language and compiler to help network operators with a
challenging, error-prone task—bridging the gap between network-wide routing objectives …

Optimizing the" one big switch" abstraction in software-defined networks

N Kang, Z Liu, J Rexford, D Walker - … of the ninth ACM conference on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Software Defined Networks (SDNs) support diverse network policies by offering direct,
network-wide control over how switches handle traffic. Unfortunately, many controller …