Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation Approach
Massive scale data centers (MSDC) have become a key component of current content-centric Internet architecture. With scales of up to hundreds of thousands servers, conveying traffic inside these infrastructures requires much greater connectivity resources than traditional broadband Internet transit...
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| description | Massive scale data centers (MSDC) have become a key component of current content-centric Internet architecture. With scales of up to hundreds of thousands servers, conveying traffic inside these infrastructures requires much greater connectivity resources than traditional broadband Internet transit networks. MSDCs use Fat-Tree type topologies, which ensure multipath connectivity and constant bisection bandwidth between servers. To properly use the potential advantages of these topologies, specific routing protocols are needed, with multipath support and low control messaging load. These infrastructures are enormously expensive, and therefore it is not possible to use them to experiment with new protocols; that is why scalable and realistic emulation/simulation environments are needed. Based on previous experiences, in this paper we present extensions to the ns-3 network simulator that allow executing the Free Range Routing (FRR) protocol suite, which support some of the specific MSDC routing protocols. Focused on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), we run a comprehensive set of control plane experiments over Fat-Tree topologies, achieving competitive scalability running on a single-host environment, which demonstrates that the modified ns-3 simulator can be effectively used for experimenting in the MSDC. Moreover, the validation was complemented with a theoretical analysis of BGP behavior over selected scenarios. The whole project is available to the community and fully reproducible. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bf7e89e4c9bd4cb197f532481e86050c2023-11-30T22:44:41ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032022-10-01141029210.3390/fi14100292Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation ApproachLeonardo Alberro0Felipe Velázquez1Sara Azpiroz2Eduardo Grampin3Matías Richart4Instituto de Computación (InCo), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo 11300, UruguayInstituto de Computación (InCo), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo 11300, UruguayInstituto de Computación (InCo), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo 11300, UruguayInstituto de Computación (InCo), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo 11300, UruguayInstituto de Computación (InCo), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo 11300, UruguayMassive scale data centers (MSDC) have become a key component of current content-centric Internet architecture. With scales of up to hundreds of thousands servers, conveying traffic inside these infrastructures requires much greater connectivity resources than traditional broadband Internet transit networks. MSDCs use Fat-Tree type topologies, which ensure multipath connectivity and constant bisection bandwidth between servers. To properly use the potential advantages of these topologies, specific routing protocols are needed, with multipath support and low control messaging load. These infrastructures are enormously expensive, and therefore it is not possible to use them to experiment with new protocols; that is why scalable and realistic emulation/simulation environments are needed. Based on previous experiences, in this paper we present extensions to the ns-3 network simulator that allow executing the Free Range Routing (FRR) protocol suite, which support some of the specific MSDC routing protocols. Focused on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), we run a comprehensive set of control plane experiments over Fat-Tree topologies, achieving competitive scalability running on a single-host environment, which demonstrates that the modified ns-3 simulator can be effectively used for experimenting in the MSDC. Moreover, the validation was complemented with a theoretical analysis of BGP behavior over selected scenarios. The whole project is available to the community and fully reproducible.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/10/292ns-3routingdata center |
| spellingShingle | Leonardo Alberro Felipe Velázquez Sara Azpiroz Eduardo Grampin Matías Richart Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation Approach Future Internet ns-3 routing data center |
| title | Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation Approach |
| title_full | Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation Approach |
| title_fullStr | Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation Approach |
| title_short | Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation Approach |
| title_sort | experimenting with routing protocols in the data center an ns 3 simulation approach |
| topic | ns-3 routing data center |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/10/292 |
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