Framework for Traffic Engineering of SDN Data Paths
Lucio Agostinho Rocha · Advances in Applied Sciences · 2016
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an approach to the deployment of future network infrastructures. SDN allows deal with different configurations to a crescent amount of virtualized network devices. In this paper, we offer a framework to support a number of network configurations through computational modeling and deployment of data paths between physical hosts for SDN. Computational modeling is a feasible alternative to measure and analyze the most diverse computational problems before its prototyping. We develop the toolset called Mini-TE (Mini-Traffic Engineering) to perform traffic engineering over computational models of data center topologies, and to set data paths before submission of data streams. As a consequence, Mini-TE contributes to reduce the operating expense to discover routes among hosts of data centers. We want to evaluate the effectiveness of our methodology by using Mininet through a set of experiments.