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Source flow: handling millions of flows on flow-based nodes

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Source flow: handling millions of flows on flow-based nodes
Flow-based networks such as OpenFlow-based networks have difficulty handling a large number of flows in a node due to the capacity limitation of search engine devices such as ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM). One typical solution of this problem would be to use MPLS-like tunneling, but this approach spoils the advantage of flow-byflow path selection for load-balancing or QoS. We demonstrate a method named "Source Flow" that allows us to handle a huge amount of flows without changing the granularity of flows. By using our method, expensive and power consuming search engine devices can be removed from the core nodes, and the network can grow pretty scalable. In our demo, we construct a small network that consists of small number of OpenFlow switches, a single OpenFlow controller, and end-hosts. The hosts generate more than one million flows simultaneously and the flows are controlled on a per-flow-basis. All active flows are monitored and visualized on a user interfac...
Yasunobu Chiba, Yusuke Shinohara, Hideyuki Shimoni
Added 06 Dec 2010
Updated 06 Dec 2010
Type Conference
Year 2010
Where SIGCOMM
Authors Yasunobu Chiba, Yusuke Shinohara, Hideyuki Shimonishi
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