A SDN Based Scalable Layer 2 Network for Next Generation Internet Testbed

DOI

10.2991/csic-15.2015.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Testbeds, SDN, OpenFlow, Scalable Layer 2

Abstract

The demands for the next generation internet testbeds are becoming more and more intense recently. However, there are three problems need to solve, i.e., the ever-increasing number of actual or virtual machines demands, effectively manage these different machines and maintain the effectiveness. A scalable layer 2 network that across the whole internet is a very important technology to solve them. This paper proposes a new software defined network (SDN) based scalable layer 2 network framework and its significant characteristic is to build a scalable layer 2 network that across the whole internet by using SDN's technologies. Our framework has high performances because: 1) The operation of encapsulating and unpacking packets is not necessary; 2) Routing paths can be pre-computed; 3) Traffic engineering to be implemented. And then the proposed framework has good scalability because its addressing resolution can be done either by a centralized query or by transmitting a broadcast packet in the internet. And the two ways can be swapped flexibly by the load balancing.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yanwei Xu
AU  - Xiaoyuan Lu
AU  - Tairan Zhang
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - A SDN Based Scalable Layer 2 Network for Next Generation Internet Testbed
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Computer Science and Intelligent Communication
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 248
EP  - 251
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/csic-15.2015.59
DO  - 10.2991/csic-15.2015.59
ID  - Xu2015/07
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