SASER-SIEGFRIED (funded by BMBF)

SASER-SIEGFRIED

funded this research project. Part of the CELTIC Initiative.

Project Team

Head		Prof. Dr.-Ing. Phuoc Tran-Gia Dr. Thomas Zinner

Researchers		Steffen Gebert Stanislav Lange

Students		Stefan Geißler Nicholas Gray Fabian Helmschrott Stefan Herrnleben Florian Mayer Alexander Müssig Stephan Oberste-Vorth Richard Rauscher Michael Rüger Johann Scherer Johannes Schnappauf Alexander Werthmann Xiajun Yan

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Heuristic Approaches to the Controller Placement Problem in Large Scale SDN Networks. Lange, Stanislav; Gebert, Steffen; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Hock, David; Jarschel, Michael; Hoffmann, Marco. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management - Special Issue on Efficient Management of SDN and NFV-based Systems, 12(1), pp. 4–17. 2015.
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) marks a paradigm shift towards an externalized and logically centralized network control plane. A particularly important task in SDN architectures is that of controller placement, i.e., the positioning of a limited number of resources within a network in order to meet various requirements. These requirements range from latency constraints to failure tolerance and load balancing. In most scenarios, at least some of these objectives are competing, thus no single best placement is available and decision makers need to find a balanced trade-off. This work presents POCO, a framework for Pareto-based Optimal COntroller placement that provides operators with Pareto optimal placements with respect to different performance metrics. In its default configuration, POCO performs an exhaustive evaluation of all possible placements. While this is practically feasible for small and medium sized networks, realistic time and resource constraints call for an alternative in the context of large scale networks or dynamic networks whose properties change over time. For these scenarios, the POCO toolset is extended by a heuristic approach that is less accurate, but yields faster computation times. An evaluation of this heuristic is performed on a collection of real world network topologies from the Internet Topology Zoo. Utilizing a measure for quantifying the error introduced by the heuristic approach allows an analysis of the resulting trade-off between time and accuracy. Additionally, the proposed methods can be extended to solve similar virtual functions placement problems which appear in the context of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

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%0 Journal Article %1 info3-article-2015-131 %A Lange, Stanislav %A Gebert, Steffen %A Zinner, Thomas %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %A Hock, David %A Jarschel, Michael %A Hoffmann, Marco %D 2015 %J IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management - Special Issue on Efficient Management of SDN and NFV-based Systems %N 1 %P 4 - 17 %T Heuristic Approaches to the Controller Placement Problem in Large Scale SDN Networks %V 12 %X Software Defined Networking (SDN) marks a paradigm shift towards an externalized and logically centralized network control plane. A particularly important task in SDN architectures is that of controller placement, i.e., the positioning of a limited number of resources within a network in order to meet various requirements. These requirements range from latency constraints to failure tolerance and load balancing. In most scenarios, at least some of these objectives are competing, thus no single best placement is available and decision makers need to find a balanced trade-off. This work presents POCO, a framework for Pareto-based Optimal COntroller placement that provides operators with Pareto optimal placements with respect to different performance metrics. In its default configuration, POCO performs an exhaustive evaluation of all possible placements. While this is practically feasible for small and medium sized networks, realistic time and resource constraints call for an alternative in the context of large scale networks or dynamic networks whose properties change over time. For these scenarios, the POCO toolset is extended by a heuristic approach that is less accurate, but yields faster computation times. An evaluation of this heuristic is performed on a collection of real world network topologies from the Internet Topology Zoo. Utilizing a measure for quantifying the error introduced by the heuristic approach allows an analysis of the resulting trade-off between time and accuracy. Additionally, the proposed methods can be extended to solve similar virtual functions placement problems which appear in the context of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

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Investigating the Impact of Network Topology on the Processing Times of SDN Controllers. Metter, Christopher; Gebert, Steffen; Lange, Stanislav; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Jarschel, Michael. In Seventh IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet. Ottawa, Canada, 2015.
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Software Deﬁned Networking (SDN) introduces the concept of logically-centralized controllers in charge of managing the forwarding behavior of network elements. The new possibilities enabled through the centralization of control logic come with a certain risk: The controller might become a performance bottleneck. Therefore, ensuring sufﬁcient controller performance is one of the crucial tasks prior to a successful SDN deployment. Furthermore, ﬁne-grained trafﬁc engineering, e.g., to achieve higher link utilization, results in a higher frequency of requests that are sent to the controller, which leads to an increased controller load. It is therefore important to analyze the capabilities of SDN controllers prior to deployment. This paper investigates two software implementations, the OpenDaylight and Ryu controllers. The control message throughput of different controllers has been studied several times already; however, it is not yet known what inﬂuence the number and topology of connected switches have. This paper investigates this inﬂuence in detail for a fat-tree data center topology and a WAN topology as well as 261 topologies with varying characteristics from the Internet Topology Zoo.

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%0 Conference Paper %1 info3-inproceedings-2015-510 %A Metter, Christopher %A Gebert, Steffen %A Lange, Stanislav %A Zinner, Thomas %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %A Jarschel, Michael %B Seventh IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet %C Ottawa, Canada %D 2015 %T Investigating the Impact of Network Topology on the Processing Times of SDN Controllers %X Software Deﬁned Networking (SDN) introduces the concept of logically-centralized controllers in charge of managing the forwarding behavior of network elements. The new possibilities enabled through the centralization of control logic come with a certain risk: The controller might become a performance bottleneck. Therefore, ensuring sufﬁcient controller performance is one of the crucial tasks prior to a successful SDN deployment. Furthermore, ﬁne-grained trafﬁc engineering, e.g., to achieve higher link utilization, results in a higher frequency of requests that are sent to the controller, which leads to an increased controller load. It is therefore important to analyze the capabilities of SDN controllers prior to deployment. This paper investigates two software implementations, the OpenDaylight and Ryu controllers. The control message throughput of different controllers has been studied several times already; however, it is not yet known what inﬂuence the number and topology of connected switches have. This paper investigates this inﬂuence in detail for a fat-tree data center topology and a WAN topology as well as 261 topologies with varying characteristics from the Internet Topology Zoo.
Continuously Delivering Your Network (Short Paper). Gebert, Steffen; Schwartz, Christian; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM). Ottawa, Canada, 2015.
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Softwarization and cloudification of networks through software defined networking and network functions virtualisation promise a new degree of flexibility and agility. By moving logic from device firmware into software applications and applying software development mechanisms, innovation can be introduced with less effort. Concrete ways how to operate and orchestrate such systems are not yet defined. The process of making changes to a controller software or a virtualized network function in a production network without the risk of network disruption is not covered by literature. Complexity of systems brings the risk of unexpected side-effects and has so long been a show-stopper for administrators applying changes to networking devices. This paper suggests the adaption of the successful concept of continuous delivery into the software defined networking world. Test-driven development and automatic acceptance tests demonstrate that the software engineering community already found ways to ensure that changes do not break. Applied to network engineering, the adaption of continuous delivery can be seen as an enabler for risk-free and frequent changes in production infrastructure through push button deployments.

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Investigating Isolation between Virtual Networks in Case of Congestion for a Pronto 3290 Switch. Nguyen-Ngoc, Anh; Lange, Stanislav; Gebert, Steffen; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Jarschel, Michael. In Workshop on Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization for Flexible Network Management (SDNFlex 2015). Cottbus, Germany, 2015.
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Resource isolation between virtual networks is one of the key features of network virtualization. It is typically realized by configuring queues with specific rate guarantees on the egress ports of the network devices. The drawback of this architectural choice, however, is that traffic from several ingress ports may result in congestion on an egress port. Hence, the question arises to which extent isolation between virtual networks is realized in state-of-the-art hardware. This work aims at investigating whether congestion within one virtual network may affect the throughput performance of another virtual network. For that, measurements in a local testbed using a Pronto 3290 switch running an OpenFlow-enabling Pica8 firmware are performed.

@inproceedings{info3-inproceedings-2015-508, abstract = {Resource isolation between virtual networks is one of the key features of network virtualization. It is typically realized by configuring queues with specific rate guarantees on the egress ports of the network devices. The drawback of this architectural choice, however, is that traffic from several ingress ports may result in congestion on an egress port. Hence, the question arises to which extent isolation between virtual networks is realized in state-of-the-art hardware. This work aims at investigating whether congestion within one virtual network may affect the throughput performance of another virtual network. For that, measurements in a local testbed using a Pronto 3290 switch running an OpenFlow-enabling Pica8 firmware are performed.}, address = {Cottbus, Germany}, author = {Nguyen-Ngoc, Anh and Lange, Stanislav and Gebert, Steffen and Zinner, Thomas and Tran-Gia, Phuoc and Jarschel, Michael}, booktitle = {Workshop on Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization for Flexible Network Management (SDNFlex 2015)}, keywords = {saser-siegfried}, month = {03}, title = {Investigating Isolation between Virtual Networks in Case of Congestion for a Pronto 3290 Switch}, year = 2015 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 info3-inproceedings-2015-508 %A Nguyen-Ngoc, Anh %A Lange, Stanislav %A Gebert, Steffen %A Zinner, Thomas %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %A Jarschel, Michael %B Workshop on Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization for Flexible Network Management (SDNFlex 2015) %C Cottbus, Germany %D 2015 %T Investigating Isolation between Virtual Networks in Case of Congestion for a Pronto 3290 Switch %X Resource isolation between virtual networks is one of the key features of network virtualization. It is typically realized by configuring queues with specific rate guarantees on the egress ports of the network devices. The drawback of this architectural choice, however, is that traffic from several ingress ports may result in congestion on an egress port. Hence, the question arises to which extent isolation between virtual networks is realized in state-of-the-art hardware. This work aims at investigating whether congestion within one virtual network may affect the throughput performance of another virtual network. For that, measurements in a local testbed using a Pronto 3290 switch running an OpenFlow-enabling Pica8 firmware are performed.
OFCProbe: A Platform-Independent Tool for OpenFlow Controller Analysis. Jarschel, Michael; Metter, Christopher; Zinner, Thomas; Gebert, Steffen; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In 5th IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics (IEEE ICCE 2014). Da Nang, Vietnam, 2014.
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Controller performance and behavior are key to the operation of an SDN network. Therefore, choosing the right controller implementation and corresponding set of applications is essential. In order to facilitate this decision we previously introduced a tool for controller performance analysis called ”OFCBenchmark”. In this paper, we present ”OFCProbe” a platform-independent and extended re-design of our original approach. We describe the new architecture and explain the implemented features. Finally, we provide some sample results to illustrate the kind of investigations that can be performed using the tool.

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%0 Conference Paper %1 info3-inproceedings-2014-496 %A Jarschel, Michael %A Metter, Christopher %A Zinner, Thomas %A Gebert, Steffen %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %B 5th IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics (IEEE ICCE 2014) %C Da Nang, Vietnam %D 2014 %T OFCProbe: A Platform-Independent Tool for OpenFlow Controller Analysis %X Controller performance and behavior are key to the operation of an SDN network. Therefore, choosing the right controller implementation and corresponding set of applications is essential. In order to facilitate this decision we previously introduced a tool for controller performance analysis called ”OFCBenchmark”. In this paper, we present ”OFCProbe” a platform-independent and extended re-design of our original approach. We describe the new architecture and explain the implemented features. Finally, we provide some sample results to illustrate the kind of investigations that can be performed using the tool.
Including Energy Efficiency Aspects in Multi-Layer Optical Network Design. Gebert, Steffen; Hock, David; Hartmann, Matthias; Spoerhase, Joachim; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In 5th International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE 2014). Da Nang, Vietnam, 2014.
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This paper investigates the influence of the network planning process on a higher energy-awareness of optical multi-layer core networks. In particular, we propose to remove redundant links in the network, and to route corresponding network traffic on other links. Based on the reduced network topology, we compute the required network equipment for realistic traffic demands using a network planning tool. Due to the lack of an accurate model for operational expenditures and energy consumption, we choose the link length as cost function. We show the applicability of our idea and demonstrate the energy saving potential using realistic network topologies.

@inproceedings{info3-inproceedings-2014-492, abstract = {This paper investigates the influence of the network planning process on a higher energy-awareness of optical multi-layer core networks. In particular, we propose to remove redundant links in the network, and to route corresponding network traffic on other links. Based on the reduced network topology, we compute the required network equipment for realistic traffic demands using a network planning tool. Due to the lack of an accurate model for operational expenditures and energy consumption, we choose the link length as cost function. We show the applicability of our idea and demonstrate the energy saving potential using realistic network topologies.}, address = {Da Nang, Vietnam}, author = {Gebert, Steffen and Hock, David and Hartmann, Matthias and Spoerhase, Joachim and Zinner, Thomas and Tran-Gia, Phuoc}, booktitle = {5th International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE 2014)}, keywords = {saser-siegfried}, month = {07}, title = {Including Energy Efficiency Aspects in Multi-Layer Optical Network Design}, year = 2014 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 info3-inproceedings-2014-492 %A Gebert, Steffen %A Hock, David %A Hartmann, Matthias %A Spoerhase, Joachim %A Zinner, Thomas %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %B 5th International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE 2014) %C Da Nang, Vietnam %D 2014 %T Including Energy Efficiency Aspects in Multi-Layer Optical Network Design %X This paper investigates the influence of the network planning process on a higher energy-awareness of optical multi-layer core networks. In particular, we propose to remove redundant links in the network, and to route corresponding network traffic on other links. Based on the reduced network topology, we compute the required network equipment for realistic traffic demands using a network planning tool. Due to the lack of an accurate model for operational expenditures and energy consumption, we choose the link length as cost function. We show the applicability of our idea and demonstrate the energy saving potential using realistic network topologies.
Pareto-Optimal Resilient Controller Placement in SDN-based Core Networks. Hock, David; Hartmann, Matthias; Gebert, Steffen; Jarschel, Michael; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC). Shanghai, China, 2013.
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With the introduction of Software Defined Networking (SDN), the concept of an external and optionally centralized network control plane, i.e. controller, is drawing the attention of researchers and industry. A particularly important task in the SDN context is the placement of such external resources in the network. In this paper, we discuss important aspects of the controller placement problem with a focus on SDN-based core networks, including different types of resilience and failure tolerance. When several performance and resilience metrics are considered, there is usually no single best controller placement solution, but a trade-off between these metrics. We introduce our framework for resilient Pareto-based Optimal COntroller-placement (POCO) that provides the operator of a network with all Pareto-optimal placements. The ideas and mechanisms are illustrated using the Internet2 OS3E topology and further evaluated on more than 140 topologies of the Topology Zoo. In particular, our findings reveal that for most of the topologies more than 20% of all nodes need to be controllers to assure a continuous connection of all nodes to one of the controllers in any arbitrary double link or node failure scenario.

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%0 Conference Paper %1 info3-inproceedings-2013-466 %A Hock, David %A Hartmann, Matthias %A Gebert, Steffen %A Jarschel, Michael %A Zinner, Thomas %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %B 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) %C Shanghai, China %D 2013 %T Pareto-Optimal Resilient Controller Placement in SDN-based Core Networks %X With the introduction of Software Defined Networking (SDN), the concept of an external and optionally centralized network control plane, i.e. controller, is drawing the attention of researchers and industry. A particularly important task in the SDN context is the placement of such external resources in the network. In this paper, we discuss important aspects of the controller placement problem with a focus on SDN-based core networks, including different types of resilience and failure tolerance. When several performance and resilience metrics are considered, there is usually no single best controller placement solution, but a trade-off between these metrics. We introduce our framework for resilient Pareto-based Optimal COntroller-placement (POCO) that provides the operator of a network with all Pareto-optimal placements. The ideas and mechanisms are illustrated using the Internet2 OS3E topology and further evaluated on more than 140 topologies of the Topology Zoo. In particular, our findings reveal that for most of the topologies more than 20% of all nodes need to be controllers to assure a continuous connection of all nodes to one of the controllers in any arbitrary double link or node failure scenario.

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Demonstrating the Optimal Placement of Virtualized Cellular Network Functions in Case of Large Crowd Events. Gebert, Steffen; Jarschel, Michael; Hoffmann, Marco. Vienna, Austria, 2015, April.
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Demonstrating the Optimal Placement of Virtualized Cellular Network Functions in Case of Large Crowd Events. Gebert, Steffen; Hock, David; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Hoffmann, Marco; Jarschel, Michael; Schmidt, Ernst-Dieter; Braun, Ralf-Peter; Banse, Christian; Koepsel, Andreas. 2014, August.
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@misc{info3-software-2014-21, author = {Gebert, Steffen and Hock, David and Zinner, Thomas and Tran-Gia, Phuoc and Hoffmann, Marco and Jarschel, Michael and Schmidt, Ernst-Dieter and Braun, Ralf-Peter and Banse, Christian and Koepsel, Andreas}, booktitle = {SIGCOMM}, keywords = {sys:hidden:software}, month = {08}, title = {Demonstrating the Optimal Placement of Virtualized Cellular Network Functions in Case of Large Crowd Events}, year = 2014 }

%0 Generic %1 info3-software-2014-21 %A Gebert, Steffen %A Hock, David %A Zinner, Thomas %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %A Hoffmann, Marco %A Jarschel, Michael %A Schmidt, Ernst-Dieter %A Braun, Ralf-Peter %A Banse, Christian %A Koepsel, Andreas %B SIGCOMM %D 2014 %T Demonstrating the Optimal Placement of Virtualized Cellular Network Functions in Case of Large Crowd Events
POCO: A Framework for the Pareto-Optimal Resilient Controller Placement in SDN-based Core Networks. Hock, David; Gebert, Steffen; Hartmann, Matthias; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. Krakow, Poland, 2014, May.
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@misc{info3-software-2014-18, address = {Krakow, Poland}, author = {Hock, David and Gebert, Steffen and Hartmann, Matthias and Zinner, Thomas and Tran-Gia, Phuoc}, booktitle = {IEEE NOMS}, keywords = {poco}, month = {05}, title = {POCO: A Framework for the Pareto-Optimal Resilient Controller Placement in SDN-based Core Networks}, year = 2014 }

%0 Generic %1 info3-software-2014-18 %A Hock, David %A Gebert, Steffen %A Hartmann, Matthias %A Zinner, Thomas %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %B IEEE NOMS %C Krakow, Poland %D 2014 %T POCO: A Framework for the Pareto-Optimal Resilient Controller Placement in SDN-based Core Networks
POCO-PLC: Enabling Dynamic Pareto-Optimal Resilient Controller Placement in SDN Networks. Hock, David; Hartmann, Matthias; Gebert, Steffen; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. Toronto, Canada, 2014, April.
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@misc{info3-software-2014-19, address = {Toronto, Canada}, author = {Hock, David and Hartmann, Matthias and Gebert, Steffen and Zinner, Thomas and Tran-Gia, Phuoc}, booktitle = {Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)}, keywords = {poco}, month = {04}, title = {POCO-PLC: Enabling Dynamic Pareto-Optimal Resilient Controller Placement in SDN Networks}, year = 2014 }

%0 Generic %1 info3-software-2014-19 %A Hock, David %A Hartmann, Matthias %A Gebert, Steffen %A Zinner, Thomas %A Tran-Gia, Phuoc %B Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) %C Toronto, Canada %D 2014 %T POCO-PLC: Enabling Dynamic Pareto-Optimal Resilient Controller Placement in SDN Networks

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