Design and Implementation of a Novel HomePlug-Based Solution for Low Cost and High Performance Smart Home Networking

As the smart home is the end-point power consumer, it is the major part to be controlled in a smart micro grid. There are so many challenges for implementing a smart home system in which the most important ones are the cost and simplicity of the implementation method. It is clear that the major share of the total cost is referred to the internal controlling system network; although there are too many methods proposed but still there is not any satisfying method at the consumers＇ point of view. In this paper, a novel solution for this demand is proposed, which not only minimizes the implementation cost, but also provides a high level of reliability and simplicity of operation; feasibility, extendibility, and flexibility are other leading properties of the design.

Closer:Scalable Load Balancing Mechanism for Cloud Datacenters

Cloud providers(e.g.,Google,Alibaba,Amazon)own large-scale datacenter networks that comprise thousands of switches and links.A loadbalancing mechanism is supposed to effectively utilize the bisection bandwidth.Both Equal-Cost Multi-Path(ECMP),the canonical solution in practice,and alternatives come with performance limitations or significant deployment challenges.In this work,we propose Closer,a scalable load balancing mechanism for cloud datacenters.Closer complies with the evaluation of technology including the deployment of Clos-based topologies,overlays for network virtualization,and virtual machine(VM)clusters.We decouple the system into centralized route calculation and distributed route decision to guarantee its flexibility and stability in large-scale networks.Leveraging In-band Network Telemetry(INT)to obtain precise link state information,a simple but efficient algorithm implements a weighted ECMP at the edge of fabric,which enables Closer to proactively map the flows to the appropriate path and avoid the excessive congestion of a single link.Closer achieves 2 to 7 times better flow completion time(FCT)at 70%network load than existing schemes that work with same hardware environment.

Survey of Mechanisms for Inter-Domain SDN

Software defined networking(SDN) has been applied increasingly in practical networks. Currently, SDN is mainly used to improvethe flexibility and efficiency of datacenter networks, enterprise networks and wide-area networks(WAN). There also emerge somestudies that try to deploy SDN to inter-domain settings. In this article, we introduce the progress stages of inter-domain SDN andstudies related to each stage. Finally, we discuss the applications and challenges of inter-domain SDN.

A Network Software Architecture Suitable for Service Customization

This paper explores the service customization in the view of network softwarearchitectures. The authors first abstract a network system into a framework that consists ofseveral layered basic systems and then propose a component-based network software architecture forone basic system of network software, which is suitable for service customization . The networksoftware architecture is formalized with the theory of Communicating Sequential Process and show itspossible applications in areas of personal service environment and service customization.

Trident: Efficient and Practical Software Network Monitoring

Network monitoring is receiving more attention than ever with the need for a self-driving network to tackle increasingly severe network management challenges. Advanced management applications rely on traffic data analyses, which require network monitoring to flexibly provide comprehensive traffic characteristics. Moreover, in virtualized environments, software network monitoring is constrained by available resources and requirements of cloud operators. In this paper, Trident, a policy-based network monitoring system at the host, is proposed. Trident is a novel monitoring approach, off-path configurable streaming, which offers remote analyzers a fine-grained holistic view of the network traffic. A novel fast path packet classification algorithm and a corresponding cached flow form are also proposed to improve monitoring efficiency. Evaluated in a practical deployment, Trident demonstrates negligible interference with forwarding and requires no additional software dependencies. Trident has been deployed in production networks of several Tier-IV datacenters.