On the Flexibility of MPLS Applications over an OpenFlow-Enabled Network

Ferkouss, Omar El; Correia, Sergio; Ali, Racha Ben; Lemieux, Yves; Julien, Martin; Tatipamula, Mallik; Cherkaoui, Omar

doi:10.1109/glocom.2011.6133848

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“…This technology was first proposed to control Ethernet switches. However, OpenFlow has also been used in routing ( [75], [84], [95], [96]), IP address validation ( [44]) and MPLS control ( [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [73]). This shows that OpenFlow can be used at multiple layers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Das et al [70] proposed using MPLS in the data plane but OpenFlow in the control plane instead of the traditional IP/MPLS control plane. El Ferkouss et al [71] argue that OpenFlow can be used to "deossify" an MPLS architecture. They show how an MPLS node can play multiple roles for different MPLS domains, which provides greater flexibility to the nodes.…”

Section: E Network Virtualization Using Mpls and Gmplsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey

Lara

Kolasani

Ramamurthy

2014

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-OpenFlow is currently the most commonly deployed Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology. SDN consists of decoupling the control and data planes of a network. A softwarebased controller is responsible for managing the forwarding information of one or more switches; the hardware only handles the forwarding of traffic according to the rules set by the controller. OpenFlow is an SDN technology proposed to standardize the way that a controller communicates with network devices in an SDN architecture. It was proposed to enable researchers to test new ideas in a production environment. OpenFlow provides a specification to migrate the control logic from a switch into the controller. It also defines a protocol for the communication between the controller and the switches.As discussed in this survey paper, OpenFlow-based architectures have specific capabilities that can be exploited by researchers to experiment with new ideas and test novel applications. These capabilities include software-based traffic analysis, centralized control, dynamic updating of forwarding rules and flow abstraction. OpenFlow-based applications have been proposed to ease the configuration of a network, to simplify network management and to add security features, to virtualize networks and data centers and to deploy mobile systems. These applications run on top of networking operating systems such as Nox, Beacon, Maestro, Floodlight, Trema or Node.Flow. Larger scale OpenFlow infrastructures have been deployed to allow the research community to run experiments and test their applications in more realistic scenarios. Also, studies have measured the performance of OpenFlow networks through modelling and experimentation. We describe the challenges facing the large scale deployment of OpenFlow-based networks and we discuss future research directions of this technology.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: E Network Virtualization Using Mpls and Gmplsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey

Lara

Kolasani

Ramamurthy

2014

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

517

226

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“…Ferkouss et al [35] proposed to use OpenFlow to change the roles of MPLS nodes. MPLS nodes play different roles depending on their positions in the network.…”

Section: Mplsmentioning

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A Survey on OpenFlow Technologies

Suzuki

Sonoda

Tomizawa

et al. 2014

IEICE Trans. Commun.

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SUMMARYThe paper presents a survey on OpenFlow related technologies that have been proposed as a means for researchers, network service creators, and others to easily design, test, and deploy their innovative ideas in experimental or production networks to accelerate research activities on network technologies. Rather than having programmability within each network node, separated OpenFlow controllers provide network control through pluggable software modules; thus, it is easy to develop new network control functions in executable form and test them in production networks. The emergence of OpenFlow has started various research activities. The paper surveys these activities and their results.

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“…Several dynamic routing approaches are possible (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23) for the hybrid architecture. Multiple Protocol Label Switching (22) (MPLS) is one of the approaches.…”

Section: Hybrid Openflow Architecturementioning

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An OpenFlow-based Dynamic Service Chaining Approach for Hybrid Network Functions Virtualization

Chang

Kao

2016

The Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Application Engineering 2016

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Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technology enables network services (performed virtually). One or more virtualized network functions (VNFs) together with the traditional middle boxes can be established a complex enterprise network. To provide an efficient NFV environment, we are facing the challenges of routing path decision, service ordering, and the hybrid communications between switches and middle boxes. In this paper, we propose a framework for building an OpenFlow-based dynamic services chaining and present a routing path for a hybrid NFV environment.In order to control legacy switches in hybrid NFV environment, we use simple network management protocol (SNMP) to manage Forwarding Information Base (FIB) on legacy switches. The reserved fake MAC-address is being substituted for a destination MAC-address, and then the packets are forwarded to the policy designating port. To solve the problem of middle boxes being unable to modify the packet's fields, we adopt MAC-address based forwarding method and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) protocol into the system to handle routing paths. The proposed architecture and simulation environment are reported. The performance evaluation of the system under different cases is also presented and discussed.

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On the Flexibility of MPLS Applications over an OpenFlow-Enabled Network

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey

Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey

A Survey on OpenFlow Technologies

An OpenFlow-based Dynamic Service Chaining Approach for Hybrid Network Functions Virtualization

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