A Unified Software Architecture to Enable Cross-Layer Design in the Future Internet

Baldin, Ilya; Vellala, Manoj; Wang, Anjing; Rouskas, George N.; Dutta, Rudra; Stevenson, Daniel

doi:10.1109/icccn.2007.4317792

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“…6). This needs/capability coordination mechanism is similar to that explored in North Carolina State University (NCSU) and the Renaissance Computing Institute's (RENCI) SILO project [3,4,18,19,52,64].…”

Section: Persistent Statementioning

confidence: 85%

A Dynamic Recursive Unified Internet Design (DRUID)

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Baldin

Dutta

et al. 2011

Computer Networks

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a b s t r a c tThe Dynamic Recursive Unified Internet Design (DRUID) is a future Internet design that unifies overlay networks with conventional layered network architectures. DRUID is based on the fundamental concept of recursion, enabling a simple and direct network architecture that unifies the data, control, management, and security aspects of the current Internet, leading to a more trustworthy network. DRUID's architecture is based on a single recursive block that can adapt to support a variety of communication functions, including parameterized mechanisms for hard/soft state, flow and congestion control, sequence control, fragmentation and reassembly, compression, encryption, and error recovery. This recursion is guided by the structure of a graph of translation tables that help compartmentalize the scope of various functions and identifier spaces, while relating these spaces for resource discovery, resolution, and routing. The graph also organizes persistent state that coordinates behavior between individual data events (e.g., coordinating packets as a connection), among different associations (e.g., between connections), as well as helping optimize the recursive discovery process through caching, and supporting prefetching and distributed pre-coordination. This paper describes the DRUID architecture composed of these three parts (recursive block, translation tables, persistent state), and highlights its goals and benefits, including unifying the data, control, management, and security planes currently considered orthogonal aspects of network architecture.

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Section: Persistent Statementioning

confidence: 85%

A Dynamic Recursive Unified Internet Design (DRUID)

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Dutta

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Computer Networks

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“…Finally, the silo and service manager uses the composability constraints to compose services into valid silos. For additional information on the SILO architecture, the reader is referred to [7], [15].…”

Section: The Silo Architecture and Prototypementioning

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A new internet architecture to enable software defined optics and evolving optical switching models

Rouskas

Dutta

Baldin

2008

2008 5th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems

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Abstract-The design of the SILO network architecture of fine-grain services was based on three fundamental principles. First, SILO generalizes the concept of layering and decouples layers from services, making it possible to introduce easily new functionality and innovations into the architecture. Second, cross-layer interactions are explicitly supported by extending the definition of a service to include control interfaces that can be tuned externally so as to modify the behavior of the service. The third principle is "design for change:" the architecture does not dictate the services to be implemented, but provides mechanisms to introduce new services and compose them to perform specific communication tasks. In this paper, we provide an update on the current status of the architecture and the prototype software implementation. We also introduce the concept of "software defined optics" (SDO) to refer to the emerging intelligent and programmable optical layer. We then explain how the SILO architecture may enable the rapid adoption of SDO functionality as well as evolving optical switching models, in particular, optical burst switching (OBS).

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“…There are many existing examples that have been implemented in the current Internet, such as NAT [1], VPN [2], RED [3], IDS(e.g., snort [4]), etc. The idea of putting advanced packet processing on the data plane of the networks have also been proposed as an inherent features of the nextgeneration Internet (e.g., Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture [5], SILO project [6] [7], and our service-centric network architecture [8]). …”

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Automated Service Composition and Routing in Networks with Data-Path Services

Huang¹,

Shanbhag

Wolf

2010

2010 Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks

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Abstract-Advanced packet processing in the data path of networks is common in the current Internet and is expanding to next-generation networks. Dynamic composition of such "network services" allows networks to establish connections with customized communication characteristics to satisfy various application requirements. In these networks, there are two problems that need to be solved: finding the optimal composition of services to satisfy the communication requirements of a given connection ("service composition") and finding the optimal path for a given composition of services such that the required services are executed in sequence along the path ("service routing"). So far, these two problems have been studied separately. In our work, we combine both into a "service composition and routing" approach that can achieve better solutions than the current, separate approach. We present a novel decision making system that can determine the optimal or near-optimal solutions for the service composition and routing problem. We develop a synthetic benchmark for service requests to help comprehensively evaluate the performance of our systems. The results show that considering service composition and service routing jointly results in connections that have lower end-to-end delay while still meeting all service requirements.

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A Unified Software Architecture to Enable Cross-Layer Design in the Future Internet

Cited by 20 publications

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A Dynamic Recursive Unified Internet Design (DRUID)

A Dynamic Recursive Unified Internet Design (DRUID)

A new internet architecture to enable software defined optics and evolving optical switching models

Automated Service Composition and Routing in Networks with Data-Path Services

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