Planck: Millisecond-scale Monitoring and Control for Commodity Networks

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ICCSX836

Planck: Millisecond-scale Monitoring and Control for Commodity Networks

Speaker: Jeff Rasley, Brown University

Host: Ivan Beschastnikh

Abstract

Software-defined networks introduce the possibility of building self-tuning networks that constantly monitor network conditions and react rapidly to important events such as congestion. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art monitoring mechanisms require 100s of milliseconds to seconds to extract global network state, like link utilization or the identity of 'elephant' flows.

This work introduces Planck, a network measurement architecture that employs oversubscribed port mirroring to extract network information at 275 µs – 4 ms timescales on a 10 Gbps network, 1–2 orders of magnitude faster than recent approaches. We use this technique to drive a traffic engineering application that can reroute congested flows in milliseconds and obtain aggregate throughput within 1–4% of optimal for most workloads we evaluated.

Bio

Jeff Rasley is a 3rd year PhD student from Brown University advised by Rodrigo Fonseca. He is supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and interested in networks and distributed systems. He has his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington. http://cs.brown.edu/~jeffra/


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