OMNI: OpenFlow MaNagement Infrastructure

Author

Mattos, Diogo M F ; Fernandes, Natalia C. ; Da Costa, Victor T. ; Cardoso, Leonardo P. ; Campista, Miguel Elias M ; Costa, Luís Henrique M K ; Duarte, Otto Carlos M B

Author_Institution

Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

28-30 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

56

Abstract

Managing computer networks is challenging because of the numerous monitoring variables and the difficulty to autonomously configure network parameters. This paper presents the OpenFlow MaNagement Infrastructure (OMNI), which helps the administrator to control and manage OpenFlow networks by providing remote management based on a web interface. OMNI provides flow monitoring and dynamic flow configuration through a service-oriented architecture. OMNI also offers an Application Programming Interface (API) for collecting data and configuring the OpenFlow network. We propose a multi-agent system based on OMNI API that reduces packet loss rates. We evaluate both the OMNI management applications and the multi-agent system performance using a testbed. Our results show that the multi-agent system detects and reacts to a packet-loss condition in less than three monitoring intervals.

Keywords

application program interfaces; computer network management; multi-agent systems; service-oriented architecture; API; OMNI openflow management infrastructure; OpenFlow network; Web interface; application programming interface; computer network management; dynamic flow configuration; flow monitoring; multiagent system; packet loss rates; remote management; service-oriented architecture; Control systems; Monitoring; Multiagent systems; Proposals; Web servers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network of the Future (NOF), 2011 International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1605-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOF.2011.6126682

Filename

6126682