M2cloud: software defined multi-site data center network control framework for multi-tenant

Abstract

A significant concern for cloud operators is to provide global network performance isolation for concurrent tenants. To address this, we propose M2cloud, a software defined framework providing scalable network control for multi-site data centers (DCs). M2cloud employs two-level controllers with decoupled functions, providing each tenant with flexible virtualization support in both intra- and inter-DC networks.