A Fast Failure Recovery Scheme for SDN Based on Flow Aggregation and Congestion Avoidance

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1006-2475.2023.10.012

Abstract

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that the proactive failure recovery scheme ignores the TCAM storage resource consumption of the backup path and the congestion after failure recovery， this paper proposes an SDN fast failure recovery scheme FACAR based on flow aggregation and congestion avoidance. FACAR is a proactive and fast failure recovery scheme with congestion-aware and low storage overhead. It considers all flows passing through the same link as one or several aggregate flows， and configures protection paths for these aggregate flows in advance. In this paper， FACAR is formalized as an integer linear programming problem， and a greedy-based heuristic algorithm ILP-FACAR is proposed to find the minimum number of configuration backup forwarding rules. Experimental results show that FACAR can meet the needs of the fast recovery after single link failure， and compared with other failure recovery methods， FACAR can ensure that there is no link congestion in the network after failure recovery， and greatly reduce the TCAM resource consumption of backup flow rules.

Key words: Key words: SDN, single link failure, fast failure recovery, flow aggregation, congestion avoidance

CLC Number:

TP393.2

JIANG Hou-hai, ZHUANG Yi, CAO Zi-ning. A Fast Failure Recovery Scheme for SDN Based on Flow Aggregation and Congestion Avoidance[J]. Computer and Modernization, 2023, 0(10): 77-83.

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