Flexible, Efficient, and Scalable Software-Defined Over-the-Top Multicast for ISP Environments With DynSdm

Rückert, Julius; Blendin, Jeremias; Hark, Rhaban; Hausheer, David

doi:10.1109/tnsm.2016.2607281

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“…Several approaches have been proposed to provide multicast solutions that leverage the logically centralized SDN control plane [2], [3], [4], [6], [5], [7], [8]. However, they do not address the specific scalability issue emerging from centralized processing of group membership messages at the controllers and do not provide low-cost best-effort friendly traffic engineering policy in presence of QoS guaranteed multicast traffic.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In [8], authors have proposed the Software Defined Multicast (SDM) service and some APIs for efficient delivery of OTT multicast traffic in ISP networks. However, SDM relies on a centralized group management mechanism for its implementation in ISP networks and group management events are received from OTT content providers via some APIs, instead of using IGMP messages.…”

Section: On the Scalability Of The Sdn Control Plane And Of Multicastmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Software Defined Networking (SDN) appears to be an attractive approach to implement and deploy innovative multicast routing algorithms in ISP networks [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], thanks to its logically centralized control plane. More specifically, in Software Defined ISP networks, live video streaming applications can benefit from QoS guaranteed dynamic multicast tree construction algorithms [9], [10], [11], [12], [13] that exploit the global view of the network.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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NFV-Based Scalable Guaranteed-Bandwidth Multicast Service for Software Defined ISP Networks

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New applications where anyone can broadcast high quality video are becoming very popular. ISPs may take the opportunity to propose new high quality multicast services to their clients. Because of its centralized control plane, Software Defined Networking (SDN) enables the deployment of such a service in a flexible and bandwidth-efficient way. But deploying large-scale multicast services on SDN requires smart group membership management and a bandwidth reservation mechanism with QoS guarantees that should neither waste bandwidth nor impact too severely best effort traffic. In this paper, we propose; (1) a scalable multicast group management mechanism based on a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) approach for Software Defined ISP networks to implement and deploy multicast services on the network edge, and (2) the Lazy Load Balancing Multicast (L2BM) routing algorithm for sharing the core network capacity in a friendly way between guaranteedbandwidth multicast traffic and best-effort traffic and that does not require costly real-time monitoring of link utilization. We have implemented the mechanism and algorithm, and evaluated them both in a simulator and a testbed. In the testbed, we experimented the group management at the edge and L2BM in the core with an Open vSwitch based QoS framework and evaluated the performance of L2BM with an exhaustive set of experiments on various realistic scenarios. The results show that L2BM outperforms other state-of-the art algorithms by being less aggressive with best-effort traffic and accepting about 5-15% more guaranteed-bandwidth multicast join requests.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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NFV-Based Scalable Guaranteed-Bandwidth Multicast Service for Software Defined ISP Networks

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“…• live [14], [15] or linear [16] multicast video delivery, for which it is crucial to provide low-latency services to the end users, and where retransmissions from sources behind costly (for instance, transcontinental) links can be detrimental to the packet reception delay;…”

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Reliable BIER With Peer Caching

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Clausen

2019

IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manage.

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BIER (Bit-Indexed Explicit Replication) alleviates the operational complexities of multicast protocols (associated to the multicast tree and the incurred state in intermediate routers), by allowing for source-driven, per-packet destination selection, efficient encoding thereof in packet headers, and stateless forwarding along shortest-path multicast trees. BIER perpacket destination selection enables efficient reliable multicast delivery: packets not received by a subset of intended destinations can be efficiently BIER-retransmitted to only that subset. While BIER-based reliable multicast exhibits attractive performance attributes, relying on source retransmissions for packet recovery may be costly-even unnecessary, if topologically close peers are able to provide a copy of the packet. Thus, this paper extends the use of reliable BIER multicast to allow recovery also from peers, using Segment Routing (SR) to steer retransmission requests through a set of potential (local) candidates, before requesting retransmissions from the source as a last resort only. A general framework is introduced, which can accommodate different policies for the selection of candidate peers for retransmissions. Simple (both static and adaptive) policies are introduced and analyzed, both (i) theoretically and (ii) by way of simulations in data-center-like and real-world topologies. Results indicate that local peer recovery is able to substantially reduce the overall retransmission traffic, and that this can be achieved through simple policies, where no signalling is required to build a set of candidate peers.

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“…Software Defined Networking (SDN) appears to be an appealing approach to implement and deploy innovative multicast routing algorithms in ISP networks [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] thanks to its logically centralized control plane. More specifically, in Software Defined ISP networks, live video streaming applications could benefit from QoS guaranteed dynamic multicast tree construction algorithms that exploit the global view of the network.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scalable guaranteed-bandwidth multicast service in software defined ISP networks

Soni¹,

Dabbous²,

Turletti³

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

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New applications where anyone can broadcast video are becoming very popular on smartphones. With the advent of high definition video, ISP providers may take the opportunity to propose new high quality broadcast services to their clients. Because of its centralized control plane, Software Defined Networking (SDN) seems an ideal way to deploy such a service in a flexible and bandwidth-efficient way. But deploying large scale multicast services on SDN requires smart group membership management and a bandwidth reservation mechanism to support QoS guarantees that should neither waste bandwidth nor impact too severely best effort traffic. In this paper, we propose a Network Function Virtualization based solution for Software Defined ISP networks to implement scalable multicast group management. Then, we propose the Lazy Load balancing Multicast (L2BM) routing algorithm for sharing the network capacity in a friendly way between guaranteed-bandwidth multicast traffic and besteffort traffic. Our implementation of the framework made on Floodlight controllers and Open vSwitches is used to study the performance of L2BM.

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Flexible, Efficient, and Scalable Software-Defined Over-the-Top Multicast for ISP Environments With DynSdm

Cited by 21 publications

References 36 publications

NFV-Based Scalable Guaranteed-Bandwidth Multicast Service for Software Defined ISP Networks

NFV-Based Scalable Guaranteed-Bandwidth Multicast Service for Software Defined ISP Networks

Reliable BIER With Peer Caching

Scalable guaranteed-bandwidth multicast service in software defined ISP networks

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