Democratizing Network Reservations through Application-Aware Orchestration

Conference · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:1468103

Rao, Nageswara S.  ^[1]; Chung, Joaquin ^[2]; Kettimuthu, R. ^[2]; Foster, Ian ^[2]

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1. ORNL
2. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

The provisioning of network connections for data transfers that provide quality of service (QoS) over research and education (R&E) networks is currently performed by network operators. For network connections that span multiple administrative domains, network operators have to reach agreements on reservation requirements. As a result, a network reservation request may take from days to weeks to be provisioned. To improve provisioning times and the success rate of multidomain network reservations, we designed and implemented an application-aware orchestration framework for multidomain R&E networks. This framework leverages latest developments in software-defined networking to automate network provisioning in order to democratize access to network reservation through novel APIs. We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of our application-aware orchestration framework. We evaluate our system using Mininet and demonstrate that it provisions 49% more reservations than current state-of-the-art systems within seconds of receiving a request.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1468103
• Resource Relation: Conference: 27th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2018) - Hangzhou, , China - 7/30/2018 4:00:00 AM-8/2/2018 4:00:00 AM
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English