DISCOVERING THE NETWORK TOPOLOGY: AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR SDN

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Authors:
Leonardo OCHOA-ADAY, Cristina CERVELLÓ-PASTOR, Adriana FERNÁNDEZ-FERNÁNDEZ

DOI:
10.14201/ADCAIJ201652101108

Volume:
Regular Issue 5 (2), 2016

Keywords:

SDN; agents; topology discovery; distributed protocol

Network topology is a physical description of the overall resources in the network. Collecting this information using efficient mechanisms becomes a critical task for important network functions such as routing, network management, quality of service (QoS), among many others. Recent technologies like Software-Defined Networks (SDN) have emerged as promising approaches for managing the next generation networks. In order to ensure a proficient topology discovery service in SDN, we propose a simple agents-based mechanism. This mechanism improves the overall efficiency of the topology discovery process. In this paper, an algorithm for a novel Topology Discovery Protocol (SD-TDP) is described. This protocol will be implemented in each switch through a software agent. Thus, this approach will provide a distributed solution to solve the problem of network topology discovery in a more simple and efficient way.

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