Distributed Control Plane for 4D Architecture

Author

Iqbal, Hammad ; Znati, Taieb

Author_Institution

Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

fYear

2007

fDate

26-30 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1901

Lastpage

1905

Abstract

We explore the design of a logically centralized but physically distributed control plane for 4D architecture. 4D architecture proposes centralization of network-wide decision making state and logic in a logical control plane to ease the management complexity of data networks. However, the current design implementations of the 4D control plane are limited to physical centralization. We argue that exploration of physically distributed control plane designs would be beneficial to the scalability and practical deployment of the architecture, and present design guidelines for different routing strategies that can be used to optimize the deployment of distributed 4D architecture.

Keywords

IP networks; centralised control; computational complexity; computer network management; control system synthesis; decision making; distributed control; telecommunication control; telecommunication network routing; 4D architecture; IP networks; centralized 4D control plane; data network management complexity; logical control plane; network-wide decision making; physical centralization; physically distributed control plane design; routing strategies; Centralized control; Computer architecture; Computer network management; Computer networks; Delay; Design optimization; Distributed computing; Distributed control; IP networks; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2007. GLOBECOM '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1042-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1043-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.365

Filename

4411275