{"title":"A hybrid network traffic engineering system","authors":"Zhenzhen Yan, Chris Tracy, M. Veeraraghavan","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260841","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes traffic analysis undertaken to answer certain questions needed to design a hybrid network traffic engineering system (HNTES). The hybrid network in question consists of an IP-routed network and a dynamic virtual-circuit network, and the role of HNTES is to identify and redirect α-flows, which are defined as flows in which the number of bytes exceeds a threshold H (1 GB) over at least one α-interval (1 minute). NetFlow data from ESnet was analyzed. Our findings show that raw IP α-flows (identified by the 5-tuple) are mostly short-lived (80% are shorter than 2 minutes), which implies that HNTES should use an offline mechanism for identifying α-flows and preconfiguring policy-based routes to redirect packets for these flows to virtual circuits since setup delay is about 1 minute. An offline mechanism using prefix flow identifiers (/32 source and destination IP addresses or /24 source and destination subnets) appears to be highly effective because α-flow generating sources and sinks typically have static public IP addresses. For example, an analysis of two months of NetFlow data from an ESnet router shows that more than 94% of the total number of bytes from α-flows would have been redirected had a /24 based offline HNTES solution been deployed.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129269709","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":"Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling in parallel network processors","authors":"R. Bolla, R. Bruschi, C. Lombardo","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260857","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider energy-aware network devices (e.g. routers, switches, etc.) able to trade their energy consumption for packet forwarding performance by means of DVFS techniques. We focus on state-of-the-art packet processing engines, which generally represent the most energy-starving components of network devices, and which are often composed of a number of parallel pipelines to “divide and conquer” the incoming traffic load. Our goal is to control both the power configuration of pipelines, and the way to distribute traffic flows among them, in order to optimize the trade-off between energy consumption and network performance indexes. With this aim, we propose and analyze a constrained optimization policy, which tries to find the best trade-off between power consumption and packet latency times. In order to deeply understand the impact of such policy, a number of tests have been performed by using real-world traffic traces.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124329791","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":"Machine learning models for classification of BGP anomalies","authors":"Nabil M. Al-Rousan, L. Trajković","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260835","url":null,"abstract":"Worms such as Slammer, Nimda, and Code Red I are anomalies that affect performance of the global Internet Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP anomalies also include Internet Protocol (IP) prefix hijacks, miss-configurations, and electrical failures. Statistical and machine learning techniques have been recently deployed to classify and detect BGP anomalies. In this paper, we introduce new classification features and apply Support Vector Machine (SVM) models and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) to design anomaly detection mechanisms. We apply these multi classification models to correctly classify test datasets and identify the correct anomaly types. The proposed models are tested with collected BGP traffic traces and are employed to successfully classify and detect various BGP anomalies.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130268147","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":"A simple IP fast reroute scheme for full coverage","authors":"S. Antonakopoulos, Y. Bejerano, P. Koppol","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260822","url":null,"abstract":"A major concern in IP networks is to ensure that any topology changes, whether planned or unplanned, do not disrupt network performance. IP Fast Reroute (IP FRR) is a general approach to address this issue, by promptly forwarding an IP packet to a predetermined alternate next hop as soon as the primary next hop to the destination becomes unavailable. Among the numerous IP FRR schemes proposed to date, the simplest ones do not guarantee protection against every component failure, while more sophisticated ones tend to be difficult to implement due to various inherent complexities, such as nontrivial modifications of IP packets or high resource requirements.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115426380","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":"Fair packet dropping","authors":"A. Smiljanic, Igor Maravic, L. Milinkovic","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260843","url":null,"abstract":"Many scheduling algorithms were proposed to provide fair service of flows passing through a buffer before the congested link. As we will show, fairness can be provided only if packets are dropped appropriately, while the fair scheduling algorithms is applied. We propose a novel algorithm for packet dropping in which the oldest packet is dropped (OPD). It will be shown that OPD provides fair service while having the minimal complexity.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115054162","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":"A practical and scalable congestion control scheme for high-performance multi-stage buffered switches","authors":"Najla Alfaraj, Yang Xu, H. Jonathan Chao","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260826","url":null,"abstract":"One of the challenging problems for multi-stage buffered switching is the performance degradation due to the saturation tree congestion inside the switch when traffic destined for some output ports exceeds their link capacity (i.e., hotspots) and blocks other traffic destined for non-overloaded output ports. In previous work [18], we have proposed HOPE, an effective congestion control scheme, in the 3-stage Clos Network on Chip (NOC). HOPE proactively regulates traffic destined for each output by estimating the number of their backlogged packets in the network and applying a simple stop-and-go mechanism to prevent hotspot traffic from jamming the internal links between the stages. The effectiveness of HOPE in NOC has motivated us to apply it in the multistage buffered switches. Different from an NOC, where Switch Modules (SMs) are all on the single chip, the SMs in a multi-stage buffered switch are separated from each other for a distance up to 100 m. This significantly increases the hardware complexity of HOPE. In this paper, we address the implementation challenges when applying HOPE in the 3-stage Clos network switch. In particular, we propose a scalable traffic measurement mechanism to approximate the backlogged traffic for each output port by taking advantage of the property of Clos network that traffic is evenly distributed among central SMs. We also design an efficient messaging system to notify input sources upon congestion status updates. Simulation results with different traffic patterns show that HOPE can isolate hotspot traffic from non-hotspot traffic, achieve max-min fairness among different traffic types, and provide low latency for non-hotspot traffic and high throughput for hotspot traffic.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123023604","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":"RSTP-SP: Shortest path extensions to RSTP","authors":"E. Bonada, D. Sala","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260854","url":null,"abstract":"The spanning tree protocol is the component of the Ethernet architecture that establishes the network connectivity. Its plug-and-play property and ease of configuration have been some of the pillars of Ethernet's success. However, the new provider applications require improving the protocol capabilities such as response time, path optimality and path control. Optimal paths can be achieved if we deploy one tree rooted at each node. Nevertheless, this introduces the challenge of maintaining the path symmetry requirement of Ethernet networks. In this paper we propose RSTP-SP as an extension to RSTP that meets the performance objectives and keeps the bridging requirements. We evaluate RSTP-SP by means of a simulation analysis and we compare it to Shortest Path Bridging (SPB). Simulation results show that RSTP-SP outperforms SPB in terms of recovery time and outage experienced. In contrast, the message overhead introduced by RSTP-SP is higher than in the SPB case.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124218981","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}
F. Musumeci, L. Hernández, Lorena Zapata, M. Tornatore, M. Riunno, A. Pattavina
{"title":"Dynamic routing and resource allocation in time-driven-switched optical networks","authors":"F. Musumeci, L. Hernández, Lorena Zapata, M. Tornatore, M. Riunno, A. Pattavina","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260847","url":null,"abstract":"The continuous traffic growth keeps challenging operators' backbone networks, which nowadays are typically implemented through Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. Operators are always looking for new technical solutions to efficiently exploit the bandwidth provided by WDM fiber links, while avoiding undesired increases in network cost and energy consumption. The Time Driven Switching (TDS) technique promises to effectively addresses this issue by enabling the switching of “fractions” of wavelengths thanks to the time-coordination of all network elements. By doing so, connection requests can be efficiently “packed” into WDM links without necessarily converting optical signals into the electronic domain, i.e., traffic grooming can be accomplished directly in the optical domain. In this paper we propose new dynamic routing and scheduling strategies for TDS networks and investigate the performance of a TDS network in terms of blocking probability Pb. Due to the complexity of the joint routing and scheduling, we solve the problem by a two-step approach. Three different routing strategies are evaluated and we observe that Pb is substantially reduced (up to five orders of magnitude lower) when allowing connections to be routed over different wavelengths or different physical paths. We also note that using optical buffers at most reduces Pb 10 times. Moreover we study the variation of the time-frame size switched by TDS nodes, which influences Pb up to two orders of magnitude.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125449446","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}
B. Prisacari, G. Rodríguez, C. Minkenberg, R. Beivide
{"title":"Performance implications of deadlock avoidance techniques in torus networks","authors":"B. Prisacari, G. Rodríguez, C. Minkenberg, R. Beivide","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260837","url":null,"abstract":"Deadlock free routing techniques for torus topologies have been a subject of deep study in the field of HPC interconnects and many proposals exist in the literature. Practical deadlock avoidance techniques can be classified into two main categories, requiring either a segregation of traffic in non-cyclic virtual networks or some form of injection control. Simulating large high-dimension tori networks using application traffic is challenging. Most proposals use either large low-dimension tori, or synthetic traffic. Currently, tori of five and six dimensions are being used in actual supercomputers, such as the Fujitsu K Computer, which was ranked first in the Top 500 in two consecutive lists (June 2011 and November 2011). To our knowledge, there are no published papers comparing the performance implications of deadlock avoidance techniques for large high-dimension tori using traffic typical of parallel applications. We chose two well established deadlock-avoidance techniques in tori with dimension-order routing, dateline resource allocation and bubble injection restriction. The simulation tools had to be adapted to scale to simulate these large networks. In this paper we analyze network performance for tori of up to 6 dimensions comprising up to 4096 nodes when dealing with both synthetic and HPC-specific workloads.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131146911","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":"Multidimensional elastic routing for next generation optical networks","authors":"M. Cvijetic, I. Djordjevic, N. Cvijetic","doi":"10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260850","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present and analyze a novel concept for multidimensional elastic routing based on spatial and spectral optical networking enabled by optical Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) processing and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). These two techniques, complemented with dynamic adaptive coded-modulation are shown to form the three cornerstones of the multidimensional elastic routing concept, such that they can perform key functionality currently performed by optical crossconnects and/or Layer 2 optical switches. A statistical throughput analysis which relates key spatial and spectral components (e.g. aggregation overhead, spatial inputs/outputs, and number of spectral superbands), and identifies important practical scenarios is performed. Moreover, a performance evaluation of a flexible rate-adaptive Low Density Parity Check (LDPC)-based coded modulation scheme for multidimensional elastic networking is presented, revealing considerable gains compared to legacy approaches. By thus exploiting spatial and spectral domains in optical fiber to enable flexible routing and switching, the new scheme is promising for next-generation elastic optical networks.","PeriodicalId":163079,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115145073","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}