Resource-Aware Network Topology Management Framework
This work addresses reliability and compliance issues in cloud networking for service providers, but appears incremental as it builds on existing SDN concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of managing network topology in cloud infrastructures by proposing an SDN-enabled resource-aware framework that employs SLA compliance, Path Computation Element, and fair loading to improve topology features, with an evaluation showcasing its potential.
Cloud infrastructure provides computing services where computing resources can be adjusted on-demand. However, the adoption of cloud infrastructures brings concerns like reliance on the service provider network, reliability, compliance for service level agreements. Software-defined networking (SDN) is a networking concept that suggests the segregation of a network data plane from the control plane. This concept improves networking behavior. In this paper, we present an SDN-enabled resource-aware topology framework. The proposed framework employs SLA compliance, Path Computation Element (PCE) and shares fair loading to achieve better topology features. We also present an evaluation, showcasing the potential of our framework.