ENDEAVOUR: A Scalable SDN Architecture For Real-World IXPs

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. Give...

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Published in:	IEEE journal on selected areas in communications 2017-11, Vol.35 (11), p.2553-2562
Main Authors:	Antichi, Gianni, Castro, Ignacio, Chiesa, Marco, Fernandes, Eder L., Lapeyrade, Remy, Kopp, Daniel, Jong Hun Han, Bruyere, Marc, Dietzel, Christoph, Gusat, Mitchell, Moore, Andrew W., Owezarski, Philippe, Uhlig, Steve, Canini, Marco
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Computer Science Exchanging Innovations inter-domain routing Internet Internet eXchange points Networking and Internet Architecture peering Ports (Computers) Routing Scalability Servers Software defined networking Topology
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Summary:	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.
ISSN:	0733-8716 1558-0008 1558-0008