White Visor: Support of White-Box Switch in SDN-Based Network Hypervisor

Bong Yeol Yu; Gyeongsik Yang; Heesang Jin; Chuck Yoo

doi:10.1109/ICOIN.2019.8718167

White Visor: Support of White-Box Switch in SDN-Based Network Hypervisor

Bong Yeol Yu
, Gyeongsik Yang
, Heesang Jin
, Chuck Yoo

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Network virtualization is a fundamental technology for datacenters and upcoming wireless communications (e.g., 5G). It takes advantage of software-defined networking (SDN) that provides efficient network management by converting networking fabrics into SDN-capable devices. Moreover, white-box switches, which provide flexible and fast packet processing, are broadly deployed in commercial datacenters. A white-box switch requires a specific and restricted packet processing pipeline; however, to date, there has been no SDN-based network hypervisor that can support the pipeline of white-box switches. Therefore, in this paper, we propose WhiteVisor: A network hypervisor which can support the physical network composed of white-box switches. WhiteVisor converts a flow rule from the virtual network into a packet processing pipeline compatible with the white-box switch. We implement the prototype herein and show its feasibility and effectiveness with pipeline conversion and overhead.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	33rd International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2019
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	242-247
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538683507
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN.2019.8718167
Publication status	Published - 2019 May 17
Externally published	Yes
Event	33rd International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2019 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: 2019 Jan 9 → 2019 Jan 11

Publication series

Name	International Conference on Information Networking
Volume	2019-January
ISSN (Print)	1976-7684

Conference

Conference	33rd International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2019
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Kuala Lumpur
Period	19/1/9 → 19/1/11

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© 2019 IEEE.

Keywords

Network virtualization
Software-defined networking
White-box switch

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems

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White Visor: Support of White-Box Switch in SDN-Based Network Hypervisor. / Yu, Bong Yeol; Yang, Gyeongsik; Jin, Heesang et al.
33rd International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2019. IEEE Computer Society, 2019. p. 242-247 8718167 (International Conference on Information Networking; Vol. 2019-January).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Yu, BY, Yang, G, Jin, H & Yoo, C 2019, White Visor: Support of White-Box Switch in SDN-Based Network Hypervisor. in 33rd International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2019., 8718167, International Conference on Information Networking, vol. 2019-January, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 242-247, 33rd International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19/1/9. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN.2019.8718167

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White Visor: Support of White-Box Switch in SDN-Based Network Hypervisor

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