Blender: Upgrading Tenant-Based Data Center Networking
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2014
Published In
Proceedings Of The Tenth ACM/IEEE Symposium On Architectures For Networking And Communications Systems
Abstract
This paper presents Blender, a framework that enables network operators to improve tenant performance by tailoring the network's behavior to tenant needs. Tenants may upgrade their provisioned portion of the network with specific features, such as multi-path routing, isolation, and failure recovery, without modifying hosted application code. Network operators may differentiate themselves based on upgrades they offer, creating new upgrades via a light-weight programming interface. Blender safely executes multiple tenants' selections simultaneously across a shared network infrastructure. We show that the Blender model can express and extend recently proposed network functionality on existing SDN networks. We use an OpenFlow-based prototype to quantify Blender's performance and potential for deployment at scale.
Published By
ACM
Conference
10th ACM/IEEE Symposium On Architectures For Networking And Communications Systems
Conference Dates
October 20-21, 2014
Conference Location
Los Angeles, CA
Recommended Citation
Kevin Webb, A. Roy, K. Yocum, and A. C. Snoeren.
(2014).
"Blender: Upgrading Tenant-Based Data Center Networking".
Proceedings Of The Tenth ACM/IEEE Symposium On Architectures For Networking And Communications Systems.
65-76.
DOI: 10.1145/2658260.2658268
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