Journal on Communications ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 156-166.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2015178

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Functional composition in software-defined network based on atomic capacity

UANTong D,ANJu-long L,HENGGuo-zhen C,UYu-xiang H   

  1. National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological Research Center,Zhengzhou 450002,China
  • Online:2015-05-20 Published:2015-07-17
  • Supported by:
    The National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program);The National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program);The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)

Abstract:

Software-defined network (SDN) enables frequent network functional innovation and evolution,making the control function modularity one of the most hot research fields on SDN.Aiming at network-wide functional composition based on unified module definition and function division,firstly,atomic capacity (AC) is introduced as atomic elements of module function division and an AC-based resource description method is proposed; secondly,functional composition module based on two-level mapping is put forward and a heuristic algorithm to calculate the composition is proposed; fi-nally,an AC-orchestrating layer as extended structure of SDN application layer is devised and then a NetFPGA-10G pro-totype implementation is given.Experimental results show that the method can combine functional instances more effec-tively with better resource utilization.

Key words: software-defined network, atomic capacity, functional composition, resource utilization

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