Failure Recovery Model for Single Link with Congestion-Avoidance in SDN

Abstract

As a new network architecture,the software defined network(SDN)simplifies the network management logic by separating data plane and control plane,which is one of the popular research subjects of next-generation network.However,due to frequent link failures and other factors,it is difficult to guarantee the reliability of SDN,which is a problem well recognized in the industry.The existing SDN link failure recovery models often have the problems of long recovery delay,requiring too many flow entries and ignoring link congestion after recovery from failure.To solve these problems,this paper proposes a single-link failure recovery model(LFA-CA)based on segment routing(SR).The model employs the two heuristic algorithms of BPF and BPU to calculate a loop-free backup path during network initialization and update the congestion avoiding backup path during operation,respectively,so as to achieve fast recovery from single-link failure and congestion avoidance after failure.In this paper,massive simulation experiments are carried out to evaluate the performance of our model,and the results prove that compared with some of the existing SDN single-link failure recovery models,LFA-CA consumes less forwarding rules and has better load balancing ability after failure.

Keywords

• software-defined network|segment routing|single link failure|backup path|load balancing