Inovação no roteamento inter-domínio com redes definidas por software

Abstract

The Internet is organized on network groups managed by administrative domains known as Autonomous Systems (ASes). Each AS employs its own routing policies and has autonomy in comparison to other ASes. The comunication and coordination between these ASes is made possible by the interdomain routing protocol. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)is the interdomain routing protocol currently used on Internet. However, the Internet s interdomain routing architecture has undergone only minor changes since its inception. It presents issues difficult to solve, because of the barrier to deploy new features, the hardness to understand its behavior and dynamics, and complexity to identify and correct faults. The deployment on Internet architecture is a tough task, because the need to deploy it directly on routers. Besides that, there is a requirement of global acceptance of new protocols and modifications. We observed that Software Defined Networking (SDN) could be used to provide innovation on interdomain routing, but it lacked mechanisms support this approach. SDN is an emerging paradigm composed by a data plane, a control plane, and an open protocol. On this work we present a mechanism able to perform interdomain routing with domains that deploys SDN paradigm, called Inter-SDN Routing Component. We point out the main issues on current interdomain routing, describes the Inter-SDN component, its behavior, and its experimental evaluation. Besides that, we show how prototyping and building of an interdomain mechanism on SDN are tasks relatively simple, and explain how our solution takes advantage of the SDN features to address the issues of the interdomain routing.