A tool for tracing network data plane via SDN/OpenFlow

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• 作者：Yangyang Wang ; Jun Bi ; Keyao Zhang
• 关键词：software defined networking ; data plane ; network measurement ; traceroute ; Internet routing
• 刊名：SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：60
• 期：2
• 全文大小：648 KB
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Chinese Library of Science
  Information Systems and Communication Service
  
• 出版者：Science China Press, co-published with Springer
• ISSN：1869-1919
• 卷排序：60

文摘

SDN provides an approach to create desired network forwarding plane by programming applications. For a large-scale SDN network comprised of multiple domains and running multiple controller applications, it is difficult to measure and diagnose the problems of flow tables in data plane. Tracing the forwarding path of SDN is one of effective way for data plane state measurement. Previously proposed methods for debugging SDN were applied to a single administrative domain. There is less effort to trace the flow entries of the data plane in large-scale multi-domain SDN networks. In this paper, we propose a method of software defined data plane tracing in large-scale multi-domain SDN networks. Our method can trace forwarding paths, and get the matched flow entries and other customized trace information. We present the designs compatible with OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 switches. The performance and deployment effect are evaluated by simulation test and analysis. It shows that our method has better performance than traditional IP traceroute, and its deployment at about 20% of AS nodes can enable 70% of AS paths to be traceable.