Abstract
In this paper, we present and evaluate the design and
implementation of two distributed, fault-tolerant services that provide
the directory and topology information required to encode randomized
source routes with in-packet Bloom filters. By deploying an army of Rack
Managers acting as OpenFlow controllers, the proposed architecture
promises scalability, performance and fault-tolerance. We show that
packet forwarding itself may become a cloud internal service implemented
by leveraging cloud application best practices such as distributed
key-value storage systems. Moreover, we contribute to demystifying the
argument that the centralized controller model of OpenFlow networks is
prone to a single point of failure and show that direct network
controllers can be physically distributed, yielding thereby a sweet
intermediate approach to networking between fully distributed and
centralized.
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