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Estimation of Raw Packets in SDN

Authors : Yash Sinha, Shikhar Vashishth, K. Haribabu

Published in: Ubiquitous Communications and Network Computing

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In SDN based networks, for network management such as monitoring, performance tuning, enforcing security, configurations, calculating QoS metrics etc. a certain fraction of traffic is responsible. It consists of packets for many network protocols such as DHCP, MLD, MDNS, NDP etc. Most of the time these packets are created and absorbed at midway switches. We refer to these as raw packets. Cumulative statistics of sent and received traffic is sent to the controller by OpenFlow compliant switches that includes these raw packets. Although, not part of the data traffic these packets get counted and leads to noise in the measured statistics and thus, hamper the accuracy of methods that depend on these statistics such as calculation of QoS metrics.
In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the fraction of the network traffic that consists of raw packets in Software Defined Networks. The number of raw packets transferred depends on the number of switches and hosts in the network and it is a periodic function of time. Through experiments on several network topologies, we have estimated a way to find a cap on the generated raw packets in the network, using spanning tree information about the topology.

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Metadata
Title
Estimation of Raw Packets in SDN
Authors
Yash Sinha
Shikhar Vashishth
K. Haribabu
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73423-1_13

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