{"title":"Virtual Aggregation Using SDN","authors":"Pontus Sköldström, B. Sanchez","doi":"10.1109/EWSDN.2013.16","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We describe the design and implementation of a system for performing Virtual Aggregation, a method for dividing and spreading a forwarding table over multiple forwarding elements, in an SDN/OpenFlow network. The primary use-case for this method is to alleviate the scalability problems caused by a rapidly growing routing table in the Default-Free Zone (i.e. the BGP routers on the Internet), secondly it could be extended to support OpenFlow network abstractions. The design provides a scalable system for quickly dividing and distributing a forwarding table in an SDN environment running NOX and OpenFlow 1.1. After evaluating the system we conclude that our design is fast, scalable, and extensible.","PeriodicalId":256710,"journal":{"name":"2013 Second European Workshop on Software Defined Networks","volume":"771 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 Second European Workshop on Software Defined Networks","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSDN.2013.16","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We describe the design and implementation of a system for performing Virtual Aggregation, a method for dividing and spreading a forwarding table over multiple forwarding elements, in an SDN/OpenFlow network. The primary use-case for this method is to alleviate the scalability problems caused by a rapidly growing routing table in the Default-Free Zone (i.e. the BGP routers on the Internet), secondly it could be extended to support OpenFlow network abstractions. The design provides a scalable system for quickly dividing and distributing a forwarding table in an SDN environment running NOX and OpenFlow 1.1. After evaluating the system we conclude that our design is fast, scalable, and extensible.