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A Virtual Id Routing Protocol for Future Dynamics Networks and Its Implementation Using the SDN Paradigm

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In this paper, we propose Virtual Id Routing (VIRO) a novel “plug-&-play” non-IP routing protocol for future dynamics networks. VIRO decouples routing/forwarding from addressing by introducing a topology-aware, structured virtual id layer to encode the locations of switches and devices in the physical topology. It completely eliminates network-wide flooding in both the data and control planes, and thus is highly scalable and robust. VIRO effectively localizes the effect of failures, performs fast re-routing and supports multiple (logical) topologies on top of the same physical network substrate to further enhance network robustness. We have implemented an initial prototype of VIRO using Open vSwitch, and we extend it (both within the user space and the kernel space) to implement VIRO switching functions in VIRO switches. In addition, we use the POX SDN controller to implement VIRO’s control and management plane functions. We evaluate our prototype implementation through emulation and in the GENI (the Global Environment for Network Innovations) testbed using many synthetic and real topologies. Our evaluation results show that VIRO has better scalability than link-state based protocols (e.g. OSPF and SEATTLE) in terms of routing-table size and control overhead, as well as better mechanisms for failure recovery.

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Notes

  1. Similar to Kademlia and other DHT routing algorithms.

  2. We use the terms “node” and “switch” interchangeably.

  3. Database that holds switch-level configuration.

  4. We reuse POX’s ARP and DHCP modules.

  5. We will use these echo messages in the future for RC failure discovery.

  6. We generate 100 ping request packets.

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This research was supported in part by a Raytheon/NSF subcontract 9500012169/CNS-1346688, DTRA grants HDTRA1-09-1-0050 and HDTRA1-14-1-0040, DoD ARO MURI Award W911NF-12-1-0385, and NSF grants CNS-1117536, CRI-1305237 and CNS-1411636.

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    Braulio Dumba, Hesham Mekky, Guobao Sun & Zhi-Li Zhang

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    Sourabh Jain

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Dumba, B., Mekky, H., Jain, S. et al. A Virtual Id Routing Protocol for Future Dynamics Networks and Its Implementation Using the SDN Paradigm. J Netw Syst Manage 24, 578–606 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-016-9373-0

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