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Prototyping an SDN Control Framework for QoS Guarantees

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The centralized control capability of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) gives us an excellent opportunity to enhance the Quality of Service (QoS) routing. The end-to-end QoS-aware traffic forwarding must consider the computation latency associated with optimal path selection while reducing the controller’s response time. In this paper, we propose a new SDN controller framework that consists of a queueing mechanism, active link delay measurements, efficient statistic estimate of network states, and intelligent path computation and selection. We implement our framework as a modular application in a Floodlight SDN controller software and conduct comprehensive experimental studies on the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) testbed. Our performance evaluation based on experimental results demonstrates that the proposed framework can significantly reduce the latency in both the control plane and data plane, and find optimal paths with the minimum end-to-end delay.

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Acknowledgment

We would like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation (NSF) that partially sponsored the work under grants #1633978, #1620871, #1620862, #1651280, #1531099 and BBN/GPO project #1936 through NSF/CNS grant. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied of NSF.

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  1. Fordham University, The Bronx, NY, 10458, USA

    Mohamed Rahouti

  2. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Kaiqi Xiong

  3. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    Yufeng Xin

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Rahouti, M., Xiong, K., Xin, Y. (2021). Prototyping an SDN Control Framework for QoS Guarantees. In: Weng, Y., Yin, Y., Kuang, L., Zhang, Z. (eds) Tools for Design, Implementation and Verification of Emerging Information Technologies. TridentCom 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 380. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77428-8_1

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