Boosting The Benefits of Hybrid SDN

The upgrade of a legacy network to a full software-defined networking (SDN) deployment is usually an incremental process, during which SDN switches and legacy switches coexist in the hybrid network. However, with inappropriate deployment of SDN switches and design of hybrid control, the advantages of SDN control could not exert, and it even results in performance degradation or inconsistency (e.g., loops, black-holes). Therefore, the hybrid SDN requires considerable coordination of the centralized control and distributed routing. In this paper, we propose a solution to handle the heterogeneity caused by distinct forwarding characteristics of SDN and legacy switches, therefore boosting the benefits of hybrid SDN. We plan SDN placement to enhance the SDN controllability over the hybrid network, and conduct traffic engineering considering both the forwarding characteristics of SDN and legacy switches. The experiments with various topologies show that the SDN placement planning and hybrid forwarding yield better network performance especially in the early 70% SDN deployment.

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