IDOpenFlow: An OpenFlow switch to support identifier-locator split communication

The traditional identifier locator split network has many issues such as inflexibility, hard to innovate and difficult to deploy. SDN (Software Defined Network) provides a new direction for designing flexible identifier locator split network. The recent identifier locator split network based on SDN use the OpenFlow switch directly via rewritting the address, which lacks the scalability and utilizes locator address ineffectively. An OpenFlow switch named IDOpenFlow is proposed to support the communication based on identifier. IDOpenFlow switch provides the communication mechanism via encapsulating the packets, which has good scalability and utilizing locator address effectively. IDOpenFlow switch encapsulates and decapsulates packets according flow entries which are installed by SDN controller. Moreover, the prototype system shows that IDOpenFlow effectively supports the communication for both the fixed node and the mobile node. With respect to the issues of software forwarding performance, a high-performance IDOpenFlow switch based on Intel DPDK (which is named A-IDOpenFlow) is proposed. The results of Ixia test tool show that: 1) for packets more than 128 bytes, A-IDOpenFlow switch supports the communication based on identifier at rate of 10Gbit/s; 2) for small packet of 64 bytes, the rate of A-IDOpenFlow is 7.25 times faster than the rate of IDOpenFlow.