User-Centric Network Provisioning in Software Defined Data Center Environment

Taimur Bakhshi, Bogdan Ghita

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    Abstract

    Present data center (DC) network provisioning schemes primarily utilize conventional load-balancing technologies, offering individual application performance improvement. Diversity in application usage however, makes isolated application prioritization a performance caveat for users with varying application trends. The present paper proposes a user profiling approach to capture application trends based on generic flow measurements (NetFlow) and employs the extracted profiles to create DC traffic forwarding policies. The scheme allows operators to define a global profile and application hierarchy based on extracted profiles to prioritize traffic for individual user classes. The proposed design was tested by extracting user profiles from a realistic enterprise network, and further simulated to dynamically manage DC traffic using the software defined networking paradigm. Compared to conventional traffic management schemes, the frame delivery ratio and effective throughput of our design was significantly higher for high priority north-south user traffic as well as the inter-server east-west application traffic.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings 2016 IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2016)
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5090-2054-6 , 978-1-5090-2053-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 26 Dec 2016
    Event2016 IEEE 41st Conference on
    Local Computer Networks
    - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    Duration: 7 Nov 201610 Nov 2016
    Conference number: 41st

    Publication series

    Name2016 IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)

    Conference

    Conference2016 IEEE 41st Conference on
    Local Computer Networks
    Abbreviated titleLCN 2016
    Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
    CityDubai
    Period7/11/1610/11/16

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