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Multiple SDN applications can make several harmful interferences unintentionally, although each individual application may be properly developed. This paper proposes a Multiple SDN Applications Interference Detector (MSAID). To bridge the gap between the source code of applications and the actual interferences, we leverage symbolic execution and constraint solving to obtain how the event handler handles...
Recently, coflow has been proposed as a new abstraction to capture the communication patterns in a rich set of data parallel applications in data centers. Coflows effectively model the application-level semantics of network resource usage, so high-level optimization goals, such as reducing the transfer latency of applications, can be better achieved by taking coflows as the basic elements in network...
The programmability of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) challenges the correctness and reliability of networks. There may be design flaws as well as implementation bugs in SDN applications. White-box testing methods with formal models rely on source codes, which limits the applicability of these methods. Black-box methods without behavior models cannot systematically cover an application's functions...
Traffic Engineering is an efficient tool to balance the network flows and, thus improving the network performance with limited network resources. The goal of traffic engineering is to find an efficient and robust routing to balance the flows with changing traffic. Multiple traffic matrices are good representatives of the changing traffic. The emergence of Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides...
With the rapidly growing of geo-distributed applications in the Internet, there is a huge amount of data generated in geo-distributed datacenters everyday. However, because of region privacy concerns and limitation of inter-DC WAN bandwidth, moving all the geo-distributed data to a single datacenter for centralized processing is not practical. Therefore, we intend to process the data where it generates...
Nowadays, there are two major challenges to detect traffic anomalies in a large scale network. One is how to handle huge amounts of traffic data when we detect traffic anomalies in a network, and the other is how to carry out fast and detailed detection and classification. To address these two challenges, we propose a Change based Effective Frequent flow Features approach (CEFF), which can quickly...
The correct functioning of inter-domain routing is of vital importance to the ever expanding Internet. As a common threat to the Internet, prefix hijackings often hijack traffic destined to some Autonomous Systems(ASes), leading to routing black holes or traffic interception. In this paper, we study two typical categories of prefix hijackings, namely false origin hijacking and man-in-the-middle interception,...
Data Center is now becoming an important facility for many applications (e.g, web search and retail). As TCP can't meet applications' demands for latency and throughput, many tcp-based protocols (e.g, DCTCP, D2TCP, L2DCT) have been proposed. Among them, protocols such as D2TCP incorporate explicit deadline into congestion window adjustment procedure to guarantee flows' latency and protocols such as...
Traffic engineering is a method to balance the flows and optimize the routing in the network. Software defined networking is a new network architecture and we can gain great benefit by migrating the traditional IP network to the SDN-enabled network from the perspective of traffic engineering. However, due to the economical, organizational and technical challenges, migrating to the network with a full...
The internet faces severe routing scalability problem - the rapid increasing of prefix and updates. There are two classes of factors that contribute to scalability problem: inappropriate allocation of IP addresses and inappropriate usage of them. Existing works mainly focus on inappropriate usage of allocations, so this work focuses on inappropriate allocation of IP addresses. We carry out the measurement...
To enhance the network reliability without incurring significant extra overhead, we propose a novel link protection scheme, Hybrid Link Protection (HLP), to achieve failure resilient routing. Compared to previous schemes, HLP ensures high network availability in a more efficient way, and also provides other features such as load balancing. HLP is implemented in two stages. Stage one provides Multiple...
Today network traffic anomaly detection is very challenging in a big and constantly changing network, because there are millions of flows being transferred in a network at the same time, and the flow numbers change all the time. Although traditional information entropy has been proved to be an effective metric on network traffic anomaly detection, such a metric shows some limitations in large scale...
The diversity of QoS (Quality-of-Service) requirements of Internet applications motivates various QoS routing algorithms that take different QoS metrics into consideration. Routing algebra has been proposed as a framework to study the fundamental properties of QoS routing algorithms, such as their optimality and loop-freeness. However, for multipath QoS routing, little has been done in these aspects...
Traditional information entropy has been proved to be an effective metric on network traffic anomaly detection. However, such a metric shows some limitations in large scale networks with constantly changing flow numbers, and it makes the traditional entropy inefficient for traffic anomaly detection. To address this problem, we propose Adjustable Piecewise Entropy to improve traditional entropy for...
Data center network has become an important facility for hosting various online services and applications, and thus its performance and underlying technologies are attracting more and more interests. In order to achieve better network performance, recent studies have proposed to tailor data center network traffic management in different aspects, devising various routing and transport schemes. In particular,...
A cyber security incident in SCADA systems can cause the disruption of physical process, and may result in significant economic loss, environmental disasters or even human casualties. To exploit the feature of the physical process and find the potential attacks, this paper presents and analyzes a new class of cyber-physical attacks, named false logic attacks, against the logic of control process in...
Current intra-domain routing protocols computes only shortest paths for any pair of nodes which cannot provide good fast reroute when network failures occur. Multipath routing can be fundamentally more efficient than the currently used single path routing protocols. It can significantly reduce congestion in network by shifting traffic to unused network resources. This improves network utilization...
As the soul of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN), the quality of control plane applications determines the reliability of the networks. Unfortunately, better programmability in SDN increases the risk of bugs and challenges for testing. Because manually testing seems to be inefficient, automatic testing methods become promising alternative. Both white-box method with models and black-box method...
The Internet is playing an increasingly crucial role in both personal and business activities. Handling link failures is an important task in designing routing protocols. To enhance the network availability without incurring significant extra overhead, we propose a novel link protection algorithm, Hybrid Link Protection Scheme (HLP) to achieve failure resilient routing.
Existing tools for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) data plane testing can be classified into two classes: white box and black-box. For the former, all or part of source codes should be accessed. But for testers outside the manufacturers, the accessing of source code is impossible or very difficult in most cases, especially for hardware devices. For the latter, test cases are manually developed,...
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