Some Controversial Opinions on Software-Defined Data Plane Services

Author

Risso, Fulvio ; Manzalini, Antonio ; Nemirovsky, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Control & Comput. Eng., Politec. di Torino, Turin, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

11-13 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Several recent proposals, namely Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Network Service Chaining (NSC), aim to transform the network into a programmable platform, focusing respectively on the control plane (SDN) and on the data plane (NFV/NSC). This paper sits on the same line of the NFV/NSC proposals but with a more long-term horizon, and it presents its considerations on some controversial aspects that arise when considering the programmability of the data plane. Particularly, this paper discusses the relevance of data plane vs control plane services, the importance of the hardware platform, and the necessity to standardize northbound and southbound interfaces in future software-defined data plane services.

Keywords

computer network management; virtualisation; NFV; NSC; SDN; control plane; data plane; network functions virtualization; network service chaining; northbound interfaces; programmability; programmable platform; software defined networks; software-defined data plane services; southbound interfaces; Data models; Hardware; Software; Standards; Telecommunications; Virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Networks and Services (SDN4FNS), 2013 IEEE SDN for

Conference_Location

Trento

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SDN4FNS.2013.6702558

Filename

6702558