Analytic Model for SDN Controller Traffic and Switch Table Occupancy
12th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Best Paper Award, Montreal, Canada, (October 2016)Abstract
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a major paradigm in the field of current communication networks. SDN is used as the basis of many new networks although few performance models are available in the literature, and the majority of performance evaluations are based primarily on practical measurements. To fill this gap, we develop an analytical model to assess SDN control plane traffic as well as the occupancy of the flow table of an SDN switch. The contribution of this work is the formulation of the model for the performance-decisive parameters control-plane traffic and
flow table occupancy and the application of the model for different data
plane traffic characteristics. In the end, there is a discussion about the
setting of time-out values for storing flow entries in the switch flow
table depending on the traffic characteristics in the data plane. The
trade-off between the signaling traffic in the control plane and the
occupancy of the flow table is discussed in order to minimize both.
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