Application-Oriented Bandwidth and Latency Aware Routing with Open Flow Network

Abstract

Bandwidth and latency are two major factors that contribute the most to network application performance. Between each pair of switches in a network, there may be multiple paths connecting them. Each path has different properties because of multiple factors. Traditional shortest-path routing does not take this knowledge into consideration and may result in sub-optimal performance of applications and underutilization of network. We proposed a concept of "bandwidth and latency aware routing". The idea is that we could improve overall performance of the network by separating application into bandwidth-oriented and latency-oriented application and allocate different route for each type of application accordingly. We also proposed a design of this network system implemented using Open Flow. Routes are calculated from monitored information using Dijkstra algorithm and its variation. To support our design, we show a use case in which our design performs better than traditional routing as well as evaluation results.