Software-Defined Network Monitoring

Monitoring is fundamental to network management. Accurate and timely statistics at different granularities (e.g., per-user, per-device etc.) are essential for many network management applications (e.g., traffic engineering, failure detection etc.). Contemporary monitoring solutions (e.g., Cisco Netflow) are proprietary, inflexible, and incur a large up-front licensing and setup cost. Alternatively, dedicated hardware devices for monitoring can be used but they export statistics using non-standard protocols, are expensive and difficult to upgrade. More recently, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has been proposed to decouple the network’s control plane from data forwarding plane and implements the control plane as a logically centralized software with a global network view. The global network view available to SDN controllers facilitates the development of network monitoring applications that optimize monitoring frequencies and the placement of monitoring probes. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Raouf Boutaba

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Partner:

Inria Nancy - Grand-Est Research Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

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University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award