A Self-Organizing Distributed and In-Band SDN Control Plane

• Adopting distributed control planes is critical towards ensuring high availability and fault-tolerance of dependable Software-Defined Networks (SDNs). However, designing and bootstrapping a distributed SDN control plane is a challenging task, especially if to be done in-band, without a dedicated control network, and without relying on legacy networking protocols. One of the most appealing and powerful notions of fault-tolerance is self-organization and this paper discusses the possibility of selforganizing algorithms for in-band control planes.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datorteknik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Control network

Fault tolerance

Dependable softwares

Distributed parameter control systems

Networking protocols

Self organizations

Fault tolerant computer systems

High availability

Distributed control planes

In-band control plane

Distributed computer systems

Self organizing algorithm

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