From a carrier perspective, the possibility of turning a permanent connection (PC) into a soft permanent connection (SPC) and vice versa, without actually affecting data plane traffic being carried over it, is a valuable option. In other terms, such operation can be seen as a way of transferring the ownership and control of an existing and in-use data plane connection between the management pla...

From a carrier perspective, the possibility of turning a permanent connection (PC) into a soft permanent connection (SPC) and vice versa, without actually affecting data plane traffic being carried over it, is a valuable option. In other terms, such operation can be seen as a way of transferring the ownership and control of an existing and in-use data plane connection between the management pla...

SUMMARY In OpenFlow, data and control plane are decoupled from switches or routers. While the data plane resides in the switches or routers, the control plane might be moved into one or more external servers (controllers). In this article, we propose verification mechanisms for the data plane functionality of switches. The latter consists of two parts: (1) Flow-Match Header part (to match a flo...

Forwarding information base (FIB) scalability is a fundamental problem of numerous new network architectures that propose to use location-independent network names. We propose Concise, a FIB design that uses very little memory to support fast query of a large number of location-independent names. Concise makes use of minimal perfect hashing and relies on the SDN framework and supports fast name...

Researchers have studied a number of control and data plane attacks on BGP, the Internet’s interdomain routing protocol, in the presence of malicious ASes. These prior efforts have largely focused on attacks that can be addressed using traditional cryptographic mechanisms to ensure authentication or integrity (e.g., S-BGP). Although augmenting BGP with authentication and integrity mechanisms is...

Today’s mobile operators face significant challenges with handling the ever-increasing volume of mobile data traffic. With new mobile communication standards, like 4G/LTE, the mobile backhaul architecture has a clear split of a packet-only dataplane and a management plane. Although this new backhaul architecture yields to easier management, we find that this architecture can be improved further...

Multi-point data distribution for synchronous multimedia communication poses interesting problem for networking environment usually implemented by either native or virtual multicast. In this paper, we describe and evaluate a scalable network of Active Elements (AE) that implements user-empowered virtual-multicast overlay network for synchronous data distribution and processing in the network. T...

This paper proposes an anomaly detection framework that utilizes key performance indicators (KPIs) and traffic measurements to identify in real-time misbehaving mobile devices that contribute to signaling overloads in cellular networks. The detection algorithm selects the devices to monitor and adjusts its own parameters based on KPIs, then computes various features from Internet traffic that c...

Most network management tasks in software-defined networks (SDN) involve two stages: measurement and control. While many efforts have been focused on network control APIs for SDN, little attention goes into measurement. The key challenge of designing a new measurement API is to strike a careful balance between generality (supporting a wide variety of measurement tasks) and efficiency (enabling ...