Corybantic: towards the modular composition of SDN control programs

:  Corybantic: Towards the Modular Composition of SDN Control Programs Alvin AuYoung, Sujata Banerjee, Jeongkeun Lee, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Jayaram Mudigonda, Lucian Popa, Puneet Sharma, Yoshio Turner HP Laboratories HPL-2013-62 SDN; resource management; composing; policy; auctions Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to enable vigorous innovation, through separation of the control plane from the data plane, and to enable novel forms of network management, through a controller that uses a global view to make globally-valid decisions. The design of SDN controllers creates novel challenges; much previous work has focused on making them scalable, reliable, and efficient. However, prior work has ignored the problem that multiple controller functions may be competing for resources (e.g., link bandwidth or switch table slots). Our Corybantic design supports modular composition of independent controller modules, which manage different aspects of the network while competing for resources....

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2013
• Where: HOTNETS
• Authors: Jeffrey C. Mogul, Alvin AuYoung, Sujata Banerjee, Lucian Popa, Jeongkeun Lee, Jayaram Mudigonda, Puneet Sharma, Yoshio Turner
• Keywords: Computer Networks, HOTNETS 2013