An agent-based approach to disintegrate and modularise Software Defined Networks controller
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Chemalamarri, Vijaya Durga; Abolhasan, Mehran; Braun, Robin
- Source
- 2022 IEEE 47th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2022 IEEE 47th Conference on. :407-413 Sep, 2022
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Prototypes
Control systems
Software defined networking
Multi-agent systems
modular SDN controller
SDN
OpenFlow
- Language
The Software Defined Network paradigm deviates from traditional networks by logically centralising and physically separating the control plane from the data plane. In this work, we present the idea of a modular, agent-based SDN controller. We first highlight issues with current SDN controller designs, followed by a description of the proposed framework. We present a prototype for our design to demonstrate the controller in action using a few common use-cases. We continue the discussion by highlighting areas that require further research.