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QoS-Enabled OpenFlow Environment

for Scalable Video Streaming

Seyhan Civanlar, Murat Parlakk, A. Murat Tekalp

Burak Grkemli, Blent Kaytaz, Evren nem

ARGELA Technologies & Koc University

Istanbul, TURKEY

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Contents
Shortcomings of QoS in the Current Internet
About OpenFlow
Proposed QoS implementa?on of OpenFlow
Preliminary QoS rou?ng Formula?on
Results and Future Work

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QoS in the Current Internet

" IntServ
" Does not scale well Current Internet
" DiServ is ideally suited
for Best Effort traffic
" Only per-hop QoS support
" MPLS/tunnelling
" Lacks on-demand re-
congurability
" More bandwidth

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 Router in the Current Internet

" Forwarding and route calcula?on

Classical Router
both on the router
Route Calculation
" Distributed network controls
" Vendor proprietary implementa?ons Flow Table

" Router is a closed box: Data Forwarding

Not open for innova?on

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 OpenFlow: A Future Internet Proposal
" Stanfords Clean Slate Program OpenFlow Controller
" Implemented widely in GENI backbone Route
" Enables network slicing Calculation

" Decouples Data Forwarding and Route Calcula?on

" Open-source OpenFlow
Protocol (SSL)
OpenFlow Switch OpenFlow Switch
OpenFlow Switch
Flow Table Flow Table
Flow Table Flow Table Flow Table
Flow Table

Data Forwarding Data Forwarding

Data Forwarding

Dumb data-path switches

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 Confederated Controllers

Control Layer

Data Layer

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 Other centralized telecom architectures

SCP DB location HLR DB

billing,
announcements
INAP MAP

MOBILE
PSTN NETWORK

Highly scalable !
Highly reliable !
High performance (per call processing) !
It works!
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 Proposed QoS enabled OpenFlow
OpenFlow Controller

BE Route
" Decouple Best Eort and QoS Rou?ng Calculation
" Calculate QoS Flow Tables in the Controller QoS Route
Calculation
" Download Flow Tables to Switches
" Use available OpenFlow Protocol OpenFlow
Protocol
" No or minimal protocol extension needed
OpenFlow Switch
" Create QoS Slices
QoS Flow Table

BE Flow Table

Data Forwarding

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 Why OpenFlow for QoS?

" Backbone of GENI Network Large scale

experimentaWon is possible
" Allows for network virtualizaWon
" Network slices for QoS
" Centralized control paradigm
" More visibility into the network resources
" Easily programmable
" Program controller for QoS rouWng
" Suitable for Lab environment
" Well documented Opensource code
" Can simulate switches with Linux machines

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Controller Architecture

ROUTE
QoS CONTRACT Routes
MANAGEMENT
CALCULATION Resource Monitoring
ROUTE /SLICE
QoS
MANAGEMENT
Users Resource Signaling
Contracts
QoS NETWORK Resource Reservation
MANAGEMENT Net. data
MANAGEMENT
QoS Contract Mgmt.
SECURITY

OPENFLOW
QoS CONTRACT ENTRY
NETWORK
INTERFACE
INTERFACE

hZps SSL

Public OpenFLow
Internet Network
Optimization of QoS Flow Routing
Minimize weighted sum of (packet loss on BE & QoS-route-length)

such that QoS packet loss is zero

4 5

QoS route
1 2
BE route 3

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QoS OpenFlow Demo Setup

IP network I/F Public

Controller-Forwarder Internet
messaging I/F
p1, p2, p3 Ports
p1(F1-F3)
p2(F3-F4)
Forwarder-3 Controller

10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2
Forwarder-1 Forwarder- Forwarder-4
(Ingress) 2 (Egress)

p1(F1-F2) p1(F1-F2) p1(F2-F4) Receiver:

Sender:
p2(F1-F3) p2(F2-F4) p2(F3-F4) SVC Streaming
SVC Streaming
p3(Sender) p3(Receiver) Client
Server
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 Messaging using OpenFlow Protocol

Streaming Streaming
Controller Forwarder 1 Forwarder 2 Forwarder 3 Forwarder 4
Server Client

QoS Request
Conguring network
for QoS request
CROSS OFPT_FLOW_MOD
LAYER OFPT_FLOW_MOD
REQUEST OFPT_FLOW_MOD
QoS Response <QoS id>
QoS Flow (streaming video)

Polling informaWon from ingress

OFPT_STATS_REQUEST
and egress switches
OFPT_QUEUE_STATS
OFPT_STATS_REQUEST
Reconguring
OFPT_QUEUE_STATS
network to
respond to OFPT_FLOW_MOD

congesWon OFPT_FLOW_MOD
OFPT_FLOW_MOD

Release <QoS id> QoS Flow (streaming video)

Ok <QoS_id>

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Before QoS rerouting
x

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After QoS rerouting
x

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 Future Work

Develop alternate QoS routing algorithms

Simulation studies to assess algorithms
Larger scale experiments on GENI
Assess protocol needs QoS is an unsolved
Address Problem for
Future Internet
Controller architecture
Policing of SLA contracts

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Introducing ARGELA

" A leading next-genera?on sofware solu?on provider

for mobile and wireline operators in Turkey and
EMEA Region
" A subsidiary of Turk Telekom, the leading telephone,
Internet and IPTV service provider of Turkey with
over 20 Million subscribers
" Located in Istanbul, Turkey
" Formed in 2003 as a startup
www.argela.com

Thank You!
ARGELA Products and Services

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