ENDEAVOUR: A scalable SDN architecture for real-world IXPs

ENDEAVOUR: A scalable SDN architecture for real-world IXPs. Antichi, G., Castro, I., Chiesa, M., Fernandes, E. L., Lapeyrade, R., Kopp, D., Han, J. H., Bruyere, M., Dietzel, C., Gusat, M., & others IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 35(11):2553–2562, IEEE, 2017.
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Innovation in interdomain routing has remained stagnant for over a decade. Recently, Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) have emerged as economically-advantageous interconnection points for reducing path latencies and exchanging ever increasing traffic volumes among, possibly, hundreds of networks. Given their far-reaching implications on interdomain routing, IXPs are the ideal place to foster network innovation and extend the benefits of software defined networking (SDN) to the interdomain level. In this paper, we present, evaluate, and demonstrate ENDEAVOUR, an SDN platform for IXPs. ENDEAVOUR can be deployed on a multi-hop IXP fabric, supports a large number of use cases, and is highly scalable, while avoiding broadcast storms. Our evaluation with real data from one of the largest IXPs, demonstrates the benefits and scalability of our solution: ENDEAVOUR requires around 70% fewer rules than alternative SDN solutions thanks to our rule partitioning mechanism. In addition, by providing an open source solution, we invite everyone from the community to experiment (and improve) our implementation as well as adapt it to new use cases.

@Article{Antichi2017ENDEAVOUR,
  author       = {Antichi, Gianni and Castro, Ignacio and Chiesa, Marco and Fernandes, Eder L. and Lapeyrade, Remy and Kopp, Daniel and Han, Jong Hun and Bruyere, Marc and Dietzel, Christoph and Gusat, Mitchell and others},
  journal      = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications},
  title        = {{ENDEAVOUR: A scalable SDN architecture for real-world IXPs}},
  year         = {2017},
  issn         = {1558-0008},
  number       = {11},
  pages        = {2553--2562},
  volume       = {35},
  abstract     = {Innovation in interdomain routing has remained stagnant for over a decade. Recently, Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) have emerged as economically-advantageous interconnection points for reducing path latencies and exchanging ever increasing traffic volumes among, possibly, hundreds of networks. Given their far-reaching implications on interdomain routing, IXPs are the ideal place to foster network innovation and extend the benefits of software defined networking (SDN) to the interdomain level. In this paper, we present, evaluate, and demonstrate ENDEAVOUR, an SDN platform for IXPs. ENDEAVOUR can be deployed on a multi-hop IXP fabric, supports a large number of use cases, and is highly scalable, while avoiding broadcast storms. Our evaluation with real data from one of the largest IXPs, demonstrates the benefits and scalability of our solution: ENDEAVOUR requires around 70% fewer rules than alternative SDN solutions thanks to our rule partitioning mechanism. In addition, by providing an open source solution, we invite everyone from the community to experiment (and improve) our implementation as well as adapt it to new use cases.},
  date         = {Nov. 2017},
  doi          = {10.1109/JSAC.2017.2760398},
  file         = {:https\://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8068192:PDF},
  issue        = {11},
  journaltitle = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications},
  keywords     = {Software defined networking, Routing, Topology, Internet, Ports (Computers), Scalability, Servers, Internet eXchange points, inter-domain routing, peering},
  publisher    = {IEEE},
}

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