Traffic Engineering with Segment Routing: SDN-Based Architectural Design and Open Source Implementation

• Published in: European Workshop on Software Defined Networking (Print) pp. 111 - 112
• Main Authors: Davoli, Luca, Veltri, Luca, Ventre, Pier Luigi, Siracusano, Giuseppe, Salsano, Stefano
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer programs; Emulation; Freeware; IP networks; Multiprotocol label switching; Networks; Open Source; Resource management; Routing; Routing (telecommunications); Segment Routing; Software; Software defined networking; Source code; Topology; Traffic Engineering
• ISSN: 2379-0350; 2379-0369
• DOI: 10.1109/EWSDN.2015.73

Traffic Engineering (TE) in IP carrier networks is one of the functions that can benefit from the Software Defined Networking paradigm. However traditional per-flow routing requires a direct interaction between the SDN controller and each node that is involved in the traffic paths. Segment Routing (SR) may simplify the route enforcement delegating all the configuration and per-flow state at the border of the network. In this work we propose an architecture that integrates the SDN paradigm with SR based TE, for which we have provided an open source reference implementation. We have designed and implemented a simple TE/SR heuristic for flow allocation and we show and discuss experimental results.