Adaptive Slave Controller Assignment for Fault-Tolerant Control Plane in Software-Defined Networking

Tao Hu; Zehua Guo; Jianhui Zhang; Julong Lan

doi:10.1109/ICC.2018.8422598

Adaptive Slave Controller Assignment for Fault-Tolerant Control Plane in Software-Defined Networking

Tao Hu, Zehua Guo, Jianhui Zhang, Julong Lan

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Abstract

Multi-controller is a promising control plane solution for the large-scale Software-Defined Networks (SDN). Some existing works (e.g., OpenFlow 1.2) propose to use backup controllers named slave controllers to achieve fault- tolerance in the control plane. In this paper, we identify the unreasonable slave controller assignment could cause the controller chain failure and eventually crash the entire network. We consider some important factors for designing fault-tolerant control plane and formulating Slave Controller Assignment (SCA) problem. SCA is an NP-complete problem, and we solve it with Adaptive Slave Controller Assignment (ASCA) scheme, which adaptively assigns slave controller according to load variance difference. The numerical results validate the efficiency of ASCA.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)	9781538631805
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2018.8422598
State	Published - Jul 27 2018
Event	2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Kansas City, United States Duration: May 20 2018 → May 24 2018

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume	2018-May
ISSN (Print)	1550-3607

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Other	2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Kansas City
Period	5/20/18 → 5/24/18

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Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by the Project of National Network Cyberspace Security (Grant No. 2017YFB0803204), the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (Grant No. 2015AA016102), the Foundation for Innovative Research Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61521003), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61502530).

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© 2018 IEEE.

Keywords

Controller failure
Multi-controller
Network optimization
Software-defined networks

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Hu, T., Guo, Z., Zhang, J., & Lan, J. (2018). Adaptive Slave Controller Assignment for Fault-Tolerant Control Plane in Software-Defined Networking. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Proceedings Article 8422598 (IEEE International Conference on Communications; Vol. 2018-May). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2018.8422598

Adaptive Slave Controller Assignment for Fault-Tolerant Control Plane in Software-Defined Networking. / Hu, Tao; Guo, Zehua; Zhang, Jianhui et al.
2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. 8422598 (IEEE International Conference on Communications; Vol. 2018-May).

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Hu, T, Guo, Z, Zhang, J & Lan, J 2018, Adaptive Slave Controller Assignment for Fault-Tolerant Control Plane in Software-Defined Networking. in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Proceedings., 8422598, IEEE International Conference on Communications, vol. 2018-May, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018, Kansas City, United States, 5/20/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2018.8422598

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