Title:
Lithium: Event-Driven Network Control
Lithium: Event-Driven Network Control
| dc.contributor.author | Kim, Hyojoon | |
| dc.contributor.author | Voellmy, Andreas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Burnett, Sam | |
| dc.contributor.author | Feamster, Nick | |
| dc.contributor.author | Clark, Russ | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Computer Science | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Yale University | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-03T17:59:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-05-03T17:59:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper introduces event-driven network control, a network control framework that makes networks easier to manage by automating many tasks that must currently be performed by manually modifying low-level, distributed, and complex device configuration. We identify four policy domains that inherently capture many events: time, user, history, and traffic flow. We then present Lithium, an event-driven network control framework that can implement policies expressed using these domains. Lithium can support policies that automatically react to a wide range of events, from fluctuations in traffic volumes to changes in the time of day. Lithium allows network operators to specify networkwide policies in terms of a high-level, event-driven policy model, as opposed to configuring individual network devices with low-level commands. To show that Lithium is practical, general, and applicable in different types of network scenarios, we have deployed Lithium in both a campus network and a home network and used it to implement more flexible and dynamic network policies. We also perform evaluations to show that Lithium introduces negligible overhead beyond a conventional OpenFlow-based control framework. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43377 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | SCS Technical Report ; GT-CS-12-03 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Domains | en_US |
| dc.subject | Event-driven network control | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lithium | en_US |
| dc.subject | Network management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Network operators | en_US |
| dc.subject | OpenFlow | en_US |
| dc.title | Lithium: Event-Driven Network Control | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Technical Report | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Computing | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Computer Science | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | College of Computing Technical Report Series | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | School of Computer Science Technical Report Series | |
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