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A Decentralized SDN Architecture for the WAN

Abstract

Motivated by our experiences operating a global WAN, we argue that SDN’s reliance on infrastructure external to the data plane has substantially complicated the challenge of maintaining high availability. We propose a new decentralized SDN (dSDN) architecture in which SDN control logic instead runs within routers, eliminating the control plane’s reliance on external infrastructure and restoring fate-sharing between control and data planes. We present dSDN as a simpler approach to realizing the benefits of SDN in the WAN. Despite its much simpler design, we show that dSDN is practical from an implementation viewpoint, and outperforms centralized SDN in terms of routing convergence and SLO impact.

基于我们在运营全球广域网 (WAN) 的经验,我们认为SDN对数据平面外部基础设施的依赖极大地增加了保持高可用性的难度。我们提出了一种新的去中心化SDN(dSDN)架构,在该架构中,SDN控制逻辑在路由器内运行,从而消除了控制平面对外部基础设施的依赖,并恢复了控制平面和数据平面之间的命运共同体关系。我们将dSDN作为在广域网中实现SDN优势的一种更简化的方法。尽管其设计更为简洁,但我们证明了dSDN从实现角度来看是切实可行的,并且在路由收敛性和服务等级协议(SLO)影响方面优于集中式SDN。

Global WAN

“Global WAN” 是指覆盖全球范围的广域网(Wide Area Network)。广域网是一种计算机网络,它能够连接地理位置分散的多个局域网(LAN)和其他类型的网络,通常通过公共或专用的通信链路,如光纤、电缆、卫星等。在全球范围内运行的广域网能够连接位于不同国家或地区的网络设施,通常用于跨国企业、云服务提供商和大型互联网服务提供商(ISP)之间的数据传输和通信。

"Global WAN" 通常被用于描述那些在全球范围内运行的网络基础设施,支持跨大洲的数据流动和通信需求。

CCS Concepts

Networks → Network architectures; Network protocol design; Control path algorithms; Network reliability;

Keywords

Wide-Area Networks, Software-defined Networking, Traffic Engineering