Yufei Cheng, T. A. Nguyen, Md. Moshfequr Rahman, Siddharth Gangadhar, J. Sterbenz
{"title":"Cross-layer geodiverse protocol stack for resilient multipath transport and routing using OpenFlow","authors":"Yufei Cheng, T. A. Nguyen, Md. Moshfequr Rahman, Siddharth Gangadhar, J. Sterbenz","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470841","url":null,"abstract":"This work describes a cross-layer resilient protocol stack for survivable network communications during regional challenges. The GeoDivRP routing protocol collects network statistics and calculates multiple geodiverse paths; it provides these geodiverse paths upstack to the resilient transport protocol, ResTP, for resilient multipath communications. ResTP provides multiple resilience modes to cope with different network failure conditions. A profile-based challenge model is used to better represent different challenge scenarios. Furthermore, the resilient protocol stack is implemented in network simulator ns-3 and compared to Multipath TCP. Software-defined networking controller is proposed to implement the link failure detection module to increase the cross-layer protocol stack performance. By providing multiple d-distance separated paths, the protocol stack provides better path protection against regional challenges than MPTCP.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126666633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kortebi, O. Bouchet, A. Mengi, H. Lucht, M. Brzozowski, Oliver Maye, Pavel Čeleda, Jan Pazdera
{"title":"Convergent and reliable hybrid home networks","authors":"A. Kortebi, O. Bouchet, A. Mengi, H. Lucht, M. Brzozowski, Oliver Maye, Pavel Čeleda, Jan Pazdera","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470844","url":null,"abstract":"Home network complexity is increasing with the multiplication of the devices and the services. Moreover, heterogeneous connectivity technologies are used, typically: Ethernet, WiFi and PLC (Power Line Communication); which might contribute to customers' confusion whenever there is any service degradation. Therefore, along with efficient monitoring and management tools, mechanisms improving home network reliability and resilience are required on one hand to help users and on the other hand to allow reducing ISPs hotline costs while providing a satisfactory QoS. In this paper, we present ongoing activities conducted within a European research project (ACEMIND) targeting to provide a set of solutions for enhancing the performance and the management of home networks. In particular, we implement the software abstraction layer defined by IEEE 1905.1 standard for convergent digital home. Furthermore, we propose a traffic monitoring solution. Finally, we describe a user friendly GUI allowing to manage and to monitor the home network.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127240530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of QoS adaptation capability of complex network systems","authors":"K. Ravindran, Yassine Wardei, S. Drager","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470831","url":null,"abstract":"The paper formulates methods to measure the trustworthiness of a network system S under hostile environment conditions incident on S. How good is the system S in meeting the QoS expectations of applications (i.e., the QoS capability of S) is quantitatively measured - say, on a [0, 1] scale. We employ model-based assessment tools (e.g., PO-MDP) to benchmark the QoS capability by stress-testing S with artificially injected external conditions. As a case study, we describe the model-based assessment of a CDN (content distribution network). The study focuses on the placement of content caching nodes in a distribution topology for optimal performance. Security and reliability of nodes are additional factors. The extent of domain knowledge needed in the assessment tools is also highlighted, with emphasis on their reusability in different network systems.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125757187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arun Das, Arunabha Sen, C. Qiao, N. Ghani, N. Mitton
{"title":"A Network Planning and Management Tool for mitigating the impact of spatially correlated failures in infrastructure networks","authors":"Arun Das, Arunabha Sen, C. Qiao, N. Ghani, N. Mitton","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470837","url":null,"abstract":"Current practices of fault-tolerant network design ignore the fact that most network infrastructure faults are localized or spatially correlated (i.e., confined to regions). Network operators require new tools to mitigate the impact of such region based faults on their infrastructures. Utilizing the support from the U.S. Department of Defense, and by consolidating a wide range of theories and solutions developed in the last few years, the authors of this paper have developed an advanced Network Planning and Management Tool (NPMT) that facilitates the design and provisioning of robust and resilient networks. The tool provides multi-faceted network design, evaluation and simulation capabilities for network planners. Future extensions of the tool currently being worked upon not only expand the tool's capabilities, but also extend these capabilities to heterogeneous interdependent networks such as communication, power, water and satellite networks.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114907049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survivable virtual network mapping to provide content connectivity against double-link failures","authors":"Ali Hmaity, F. Musumeci, M. Tornatore","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470851","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, large scale natural disasters (such as earthquakes, or tsunami) have caused multiple Internet outages in different parts of the world, resulting in high infrastructures damages and capacity losses. Content providers are currently investigating novel disaster-resiliency mechanisms to maintain the service continuity in their Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). In case of such widespread failures, the content providers might not be able to guarantee Network Connectivity (i.e., the reachability of all nodes from any node in the network) and researchers have started investigating the concept of Content Connectivity (i.e., the reachability of the content from any point of the network), that can be achieved even when the network is disconnected, as long as a replica of the content can be retrieved in all the disconnected components of the network. In this paper we focus on double-link failures and consider different combinations of content connectivity and network connectivity. As guaranteeing network connectivity against double-link failures may result in very high network-resource consumption, in this work we present an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulation for survivable virtual network mapping to guarantee the network connectivity after single-link failures and maintain the content connectivity after double-link failures. We show that maintaining content connectivity against double-link failures costs almost the same, in terms of network resources, as providing network connectivity against single-link failures. We also investigate the trade-off between datacenter placement and the amount of resources needed to provide content connectivity in case of double-link failures.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132426396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of spatially-close fiber segments in optical networks","authors":"F. Iqbal, S. Trajanovski, F. Kuipers","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470840","url":null,"abstract":"Spatially-close network fibers have a significant chance of failing simultaneously in the event of man-made or natural disasters within their geographic area. Network operators are interested in the proper detection and grouping of any existing spatially-close fiber segments, to avoid service disruptions due to simultaneous fiber failures. Moreover, spatially-close fibers can further be differentiated by computing the intervals over which they are spatially close. In this paper, we propose (1) polynomial-time algorithms for detecting all the spatially-close fiber segments of different fibers, (2) a polynomial-time algorithm for finding the spatially-close intervals of a fiber to a set of other fibers, and (3) a fast exact algorithm for grouping spatially-close fibers using the minimum number of distinct risk groups. All of our algorithms have a fast running time when simulated on three real-world network topologies.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122109312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sugang Xu, N. Yoshikane, M. Shiraiwa, T. Tsuritani, H. Harai, Y. Awaji, N. Wada
{"title":"Multi-vendor interconnection-based emergency optical networks design with optimal placement of portable EDFAs in disaster recovery","authors":"Sugang Xu, N. Yoshikane, M. Shiraiwa, T. Tsuritani, H. Harai, Y. Awaji, N. Wada","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470835","url":null,"abstract":"For the recovery of core optical transport networks after disaster, in this paper, we introduce an emergency optical network design problem. In this problem, we take account of both the interconnection of the surviving multi-vendor resources and the utilization of the emergency portable EDFAs. The surviving multi-vendor optical nodes [e.g., reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) or wavelength cross-connect (WXC)] and fiber links are the first available resources in disaster recovery. The portable EDFAs are the added emergency resources for replacing the optical nodes which are either destroyed or down due to the power outage in the disaster so as to satisfy the requirement of long distance optical signal transmission. For this design problem, we model an emergency network planning using the integer linear programming (ILP) formulation such that the locations for the emergency interconnection of the multi-vendor networks and for the placement of the portable EDFAs are optimally selected. Evaluations are conducted showing the benefits of the multi-vendor interconnection approach and the utilization of the emergency portable EDFAs.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"45 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120921273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kolesnichenko, B. Haverkort, Anne Remke, P. Boer
{"title":"Fitting a code-red virus spread model: An account of putting theory into practice","authors":"A. Kolesnichenko, B. Haverkort, Anne Remke, P. Boer","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470833","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about fitting a model for the spreading of a computer virus to measured data, contributing not only the fitted model, but equally important, an account of the process of getting there. Over the last years, there has been an increased interest in epidemic models to study the speed of virus spread. But parameterising such models is hard, because due to the unexpected nature of real outbreaks, there is not much solid measurement data available, and the data may often have imperfections. We propose a mean-field model for computer virus spread, and use parameter fitting techniques to set the model's parameter values based on measured data. We discuss a number of steps that had to be taken to make the fitting work, including preprocessing and interpreting the measurement data, and restructuring the model based on the available data. We show that the resulting parameterised model closely mimics real system behaviour, with a relative squared error of 0.7%.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126909914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the interplay between topological network design and diameter constrained reliability","authors":"F. Robledo, P. Romero, Miguel Saravia","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470842","url":null,"abstract":"The design of telecommunication networks historically considers cost, availability and robustness. Nevertheless, latency-driven systems should consider the network diameter as well. A modern concept suitable to those systems is the diameter constrained reliability. This is the probability that specific nodes (terminals) are within a specified number of hops. In this short paper we revisit classical results from topological network design, and find explicit expressions for the diameter constrained reliability of feasible solutions from celebrated network optimization problems.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129761186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bitrate guarantees strategies for customer virtual networks dynamic reconfiguration","authors":"A. Asensio, M. Ruiz, L. Velasco","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2016.7470843","url":null,"abstract":"Application-specific Quality of Service (QoS) and additional Service Level Agreement (SLA) parameters to guarantee the committed service quality and avoid service interruption may be crucial in emerging applications and services. Moreover, among the wide range of services over IP transport networks, those requiring bandwidth-on-demand and related to network functions virtualization (NFV) are of particular interest. IETF is working on the Abstraction and Control of Transport Networks (ACTN) framework to facilitate network resources virtualization to support NFV. Customers can request on-demand connectivity between their end-points (EPs) to reconfigure customer virtual network (CVN) topology dynamically. In addition to CVN reconfiguration, QoS constraints and service guarantees can be requested to satisfy application-specific requirements. In this work we study two different approaches to satisfy the committed bitrate guarantees in CVN links. Exhaustive simulation results show that the diversity strategy highly improves performance and provides remarkable CAPEX savings.","PeriodicalId":137650,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114562895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}