PathMon: Path-specific traffic monitoring in OpenFlow-enabled networks

Ming Hung Wang, Shao You Wu, Li-Hsing Yen, Chien-Chao Tseng

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Abstract

Software-defined networking (SDN) aims to provide open interfaces, such as OpenFlow protocol, that enable programmable flow-based network management. Meanwhile, OpenFlow-enabled switches provide rich statistical information for specific flows, tables, and ports which facilitates various network management tasks. However, current traffic monitoring techniques collecting statistics from existing flow entries do not provide the flexibility of querying path-specific flow statistics at any aggregation levels. In this paper, we proposes PathMon which encodes flow and path information as tags to provide that flexibility and corresponding link-to-link correlations for further anomaly detection or traffic engineering tasks. Our implementation runs on commodity switches which are compliant to OpenFlow 1.3 specification and requires only a few monitoring entries for each switch along monitored paths and un-tag entries for each edge switch.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICUFN 2016 - 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages775-780
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467399913
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Aug 2016
Event8th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2016 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 5 Jul 20168 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)2165-8528
ISSN (Electronic)2165-8536

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period5/07/168/07/16

Keywords

  • OpenFlow
  • Software-defined networking
  • network monitoring
  • traffic engineering

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