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S&M3688 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM4828 Published: June 28, 2024 Improving the Scalability of Data Center Networking with Protocol-independent Source Routing [PDF] Shih-Pang Tseng, Yang Yu, and Chien-Min Chen (Received December 18, 2023; Accepted June 24, 2024) Keywords: SDN; control plane; source routing; protocol-oblivious forwarding; table item
Sensor networks generate large volumes of data that require robust processing, storage, and analysis capabilities provided by data centers. Software-defined networking, as a new network technique for designing and building networks, provides new concepts and solutions for the current data center system construction. However, the Software-defined networking (SDN) framework based on the OpenFlow protocol cannot support new protocols or actively add unknown protocols, since they cause the control plane protocol to become more bloated. It is difficult to solve the problem of network scalability because components are being continuously redesigned. Therefore, an optimized source routing technology is proposed in combination with the protocol-oblivious forwarding technology. Furthermore, a low-cost and extensible network switch is designed to realize the independent data forwarding mechanism that effectively reduces the amount of network control signaling. The experimental results show that the scheme can significantly reduce the scale of flow table items and improve the hardware forwarding rates as well as the flexibility of forwarding rules. Moreover, the design scheme has a good application prospect.
Corresponding author: Chien-Min ChenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Shih-Pang Tseng, Yang Yu, and Chien-Min Chen, Improving the Scalability of Data Center Networking with Protocol-independent Source Routing, Sens. Mater., Vol. 36, No. 6, 2024, p. 2585-2596. |