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Multi-Path Alpha-Fair Resource Allocation at Scale in Distributed Software Defined Networks
The performance of computer networks relies on how bandwidth is shared among
different flows. Fair resource allocation is a challenging problem particularly
when the flows evolve over time. To address this issue, bandwidth sharing
techniques that quickly react to the traffic fluctuations are of interest,
especially in large scale settings with hundreds of nodes and thousands of
flows. In this context, we propose a distributed algorithm based on the
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) that tackles the multi-path
fair resource allocation problem in a distributed SDN control architecture. Our
ADMM-based algorithm continuously generates a sequence of resource allocation
solutions converging to the fair allocation while always remaining feasible, a
property that standard primal-dual decomposition methods often lack. Thanks to
the distribution of all computer intensive operations, we demonstrate that we
can handle large instances at scale
The Road Ahead for Networking: A Survey on ICN-IP Coexistence Solutions
In recent years, the current Internet has experienced an unexpected paradigm
shift in the usage model, which has pushed researchers towards the design of
the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm as a possible replacement of
the existing architecture. Even though both Academia and Industry have
investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of ICN, achieving the complete
replacement of the Internet Protocol (IP) is a challenging task.
Some research groups have already addressed the coexistence by designing
their own architectures, but none of those is the final solution to move
towards the future Internet considering the unaltered state of the networking.
To design such architecture, the research community needs now a comprehensive
overview of the existing solutions that have so far addressed the coexistence.
The purpose of this paper is to reach this goal by providing the first
comprehensive survey and classification of the coexistence architectures
according to their features (i.e., deployment approach, deployment scenarios,
addressed coexistence requirements and architecture or technology used) and
evaluation parameters (i.e., challenges emerging during the deployment and the
runtime behaviour of an architecture). We believe that this paper will finally
fill the gap required for moving towards the design of the final coexistence
architecture.Comment: 23 pages, 16 figures, 3 table
dSDiVN: a distributed Software-Defined Networking architecture for Infrastructure-less Vehicular Networks
In the last few years, the emerging network architecture paradigm of
Software-Defined Networking (SDN), has become one of the most important
technology to manage large scale networks such as Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
(VANETs). Recently, several works have shown interest in the use of SDN
paradigm in VANETs. SDN brings flexibility, scalability and management facility
to current VANETs. However, almost all of proposed Software-Defined VANET
(SDVN) architectures are infrastructure-based. This paper will focus on how to
enable SDN in infrastructure-less vehicular environments. For this aim, we
propose a novel distributed SDN-based architecture for uncovered
infrastructure-less vehicular scenarios. It is a scalable cluster-based
architecture with distributed mobile controllers and a reliable fall back
recovery mechanism based on self-organized clustering and failure anticipation.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted in I4CS201
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