A Software Defined Network Design for Analyzing Streaming Data in Transit

Abstract

Year after year, network traffic keeps reaching new highs as unprecedented volumes of data flow between an ever-increasing number of sources and destinations. As part of the Analysis on the Wire project, we aim to develop a network-centric approach for streaming data processing to facilitate scientific data analysis and reduce the overhead in sending big data to a data center. This work discusses our design for programmable network devices to augment network capabilities for streaming data processing, including efforts in progress at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the challenges faced to date.