CIM-SDN: A Common Information Model extension for Software-Defined Networking

Pinheiro, Billy; Chaves, Rafael Oliveira; Cerqueira, Eduardo; Abelém, Antônio

doi:10.1109/glocomw.2013.6825093

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“…Table 2 introduces the related work to our solution by presenting per work: the reference itself, a brief description of the work, SDN plane in which the solution operates, modeling language used for specifying the management tasks, scope (interdomain vs. intradomain), and status (i.e., implementation: functional deployment in a real network, prototype: a development that serves as a proof of concept, and conceptual: nonimplementation/prototype). From the related work analysis, we remark several facts: first, there are a lot of solutions, such as, previous studies, 2,16,17,19,20,22,41,[45][46][47][48] that consider YANG or CIM for network management, but few of them 2,16,17,22 operate in SDN. Second, some works 12,[23][24][25][26]49,50 employ modeling or policy languages or formal notations for specifying their proposals.…”

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“…The Common Information Model (CIM) has been used to represent the Data Plane in a Core Information Model 15 and describe schemes for SDN. 16 The YANG language has been used to convert parameters from the OpenFlow Configuration Protocol (OFConfig) to the Open Virtual Switch DataBase (OVSDB). 17 Also, YANG has been employed for virtualizing software-defined infrastructures, 18 defining databases of configuration, 19 specifying a data model for routing, 20 defining a data model for configuration management, 19 specifying a data model in data center networks, 21 and managing data plane resources.…”

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An approach based on Yet Another Next Generation for software‐defined networking management

Montoya-Munoz

Casas-Velasco

Estrada-Solano

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Int J Communication

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The lack of a Management Plane specification in the software-defined networking (SDN) is a fundamental problem for the integrated management of networks that follow this paradigm. Several solutions have addressed this problem, but they do not provide data models intended to support Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) in SDN from a specialized Management Plane. In this paper, we introduce a technologyagnostic approach that comprises mainly a collection of YANG data models and their relationships. These models characterize SDN management and handle technology heterogeneity. To evaluate our approach, we developed the proof of concept of the YANG data models in an SDN scenario involving the configuration of devices from different vendors supporting diverse technologies. The evaluation results show the efficiency of our approach regarding response time, composition time, consumption time, and network traffic.

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An approach based on Yet Another Next Generation for software‐defined networking management

Montoya-Munoz

Casas-Velasco

Estrada-Solano

et al. 2021

Int J Communication

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“…To the best of our knowledge, the closest related work found in literature to modeling SDN and its applications are Miniedit [14], Virtual Network Descriptor (VND) [15], and Common Information Model for SDN (CIM-SDN) [16]. The Miniedit and VND refers to the creation of virtual topologies in SDN through a graphical interface.…”

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Model-driven networking: A novel approach for SDN applications development

Lopes

Santos

Fidalgo

et al. 2015

2015 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM)

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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has been receiving a great deal of attention from both academic and industry communities. One reason to this interest is that SDN enables the network programmability, through an external controller, which supports applications and policies built from SDN programming languages, thus breaking the traditional bind between control and data plane. Nevertheless, the application development in this context is still complex for such recent technology. Moreover, there is a strong need for methodologies and tools that explore the abstraction levels potentials supported by SDN. This paper presents a new approach based on the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm, called Model-Driven Networking (MDN). MDN relies on a Domain-SpecificModelling Language (DSML) to create SDN applications. We argue that MDN raises the level of abstraction on development, thus reducing the complexity to implement SDN applications and avoiding inconsistent policies. In order to show the relevance and the technological viability of our proposal, we have specified a DSML and have built a tool for creating SDN applications using the MDN approach.

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“…It uses the CIM-SDN [14], which is a CIM extension that allows the representation of SDN elements in a UML diagram, ensuring the consistency the network. It also maintains an updated documentation for easy understanding.…”

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“…In order to better structure the display and use of NVP, an CIM extension (Common Information Model) was developed to allow modeling of SDN using UML (Unified Modeling Language) [14].…”

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NVP: A Network Virtualization Proxy for Software Defined Networking

Pinheiro¹,

Cerqueira²,

Abelém³

2016

INT J COMPUT COMMUN

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The combination of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) can improve the control and utilization of network resources. However, this issue still requires proper solutions to virtualize large-scale networks, which would allow the use of SDN and Virtualization in real environments. Thus, this paper proposes a virtualization architecture for SDN that relies on a proxybased approach. The NVP (Network Virtualization Proxy) is a virtualization proxy that intercepts messages exchanged between controllers and switches SDN enabling network virtualization. An implementation of the proposal was developed as a proof of concept and load testing was performed showing that the solution can provide network virtualization in a scalable manner, using less than 2.5 MB of memory to manage 100 switches performing simultaneous requests, whereas FlowVisor requires more then 200 MB.

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CIM-SDN: A Common Information Model extension for Software-Defined Networking

Cited by 10 publications

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An approach based on Yet Another Next Generation for software‐defined networking management

An approach based on Yet Another Next Generation for software‐defined networking management

Model-driven networking: A novel approach for SDN applications development

NVP: A Network Virtualization Proxy for Software Defined Networking

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