Demo Abstract: Elastic Deployment of Robust Distributed Control Planes with Performance Guarantees

Recent control plane solutions in a software-defined network (SDN) setting assume physically distributed but logically centralized control instances: a distributed control plane (DCP). As networks become more heterogeneous with increasing amount and diversity of network resources, DCP deployment strategies must be both fast and flexible to cope with varying network conditions whilst fulfilling constraints. However, many approaches are too slow for practical applications and often address only bandwidth or delay constraints, while control-plane reliability is overlooked and control-traffic routability is not guaranteed. We demonstrate the capabilities of our optimization framework [1]-[3] for fast deployment of DCPs, guaranteeing routability in line with control service reliability, bandwidth and latency requirements. We show that our approach produces robust deployment plans under changing network conditions. Compared to state of the art solvers, our approach is magnitudes faster, enabling deployment of DCPs within minutes and seconds, rather than days and hours.