Open AccessA Bandwidth Allocation Model Provisioning Framework with Autonomic Characteristics
Author(s) -
Rafael F. Reale,
Romildo Martins da Silva Bezerra,
Joberto S. B. Martins
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of computer networks and communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 0975-2293
pISSN - 0974-9322
DOI - 10.5121/ijcnc.2013.5606
Subject(s) - computer science , provisioning , bandwidth allocation , computer network , bandwidth (computing) , distributed computing
The Bandwidth Allocation Models (MAM, RDM, G-RDM and AllocTC-Sharing) are managementalternatives currently available which propose different resource (bandwidth) allocation strategies inmultiservice networks. The BAM adoption by a network is typically a management choice andconfiguration task executed by the network operations and management system setup in a static or nearlystatic way. This paper proposes and explores the alternative ofallowing BAM definition and configurationon a more dynamic way. In effect, one of the basic motivations towards BAM dynamic allocation is the factthat multiservice networks characteristics (traffic load)may change considerably in daily networkoperation and, as such, some dynamics in BAM allocation should be introduced in order to improveperformance. A framework is presented supporting BAM dynamicallocation. The framework adopts anOpenFlow-based software-defined networking (SDN) implementation approach in order to supportscalability issues with a centralized controller and managementnetwork view. The framework architecturealso supports the implementation of some autonomic characteristics which, in brief, look for improving andfacilitating the decision-making process involved with BAM provisioning in a multiservice network. Aproof of concept is presented evaluating different BAM performance under different traffic loads in order todemonstrate the framework strategy adopted