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On the Design of Scalable, Self-Configuring Virtual Networks
Authors:| David Isaac Wolinsky (University of Florida) |
| Yonggang Liu (University of Florida) |
| Pierre St. Juste (University of Florida) |
| Girish Venkatasubramanian (University of Florida) |
| Renato Figueiredo (University of Florida) |
| Virtual Wide-Area Networking |
| Tuesday, 04:15PM - 05:00PM |
| Room PB256 |
Virtual networks (VNs) enable global addressability of VN-connected machines through either a common Ethernet (LAN) or a NAT-free layer 3 IP network (subnet), providing methods that simplify resource management, deal with connectivity constraints, and support legacy applications in distributed systems This paper presents a novel VN design that supports dynamic, seamless addition of new resources with emphasis on scalability in a unified private IP address space. Key features of
this system are: (1) Scalable connectivity via a P2P overlay with the ability to bypass overlay routing in LAN communications, (2) support for static and dynamic address allocation in conjunction with virtual nameservers through a distributed data store, and (3) support for transparent migration of IP endpoints across wide-area networks.
The approach is validated by a prototype implementation which has been deployed in grid and cloud environments. We present both a quantitative and qualitative discussion of our findings.
The full paper can be found in the
ACM Digital Library and IEEE Computer Society
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