Software-based failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces

Detection of failure mechanisms in 2440nm finfets with spectral photon emission techniques using ingaas camera 17. Softwarebased failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces by yz zhou, v lakamraju, i koren and cm krishna topics. As a result, downstream devices can execute the protection or recovery procedures they have in place to establish alternate connectivity paths. Publications prasant mohapatras network research group. How to configure uplink failure detection ufd on dell.

Network intrusion detection systems nids are critical network security tools that help protect distributed computer installations from malicious users. Hardware assist for switch clustering split multilink trunkingrouted split multilink trunking. A hierarchical watchdog mechanism for systemic fault. A protocol defined in ietf rfc 5880 for detecting and responding to network faults. Datacenter virtualization, multitenancy, failure recovery, traffic engineering, loadbalancing backbone resiliency, reliability, determinism, traffic engineering and loadbalancing campus network network access control, guest access, monitoring malicious behavior security firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, blacklists, enforced. Characterizing processor architectures for programmable network interfaces patrick crowley, marc e.

Softwarebased adaptive and concurrent selftesting in. Softwarebased failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces article pdf available in ieee transactions on parallel and distributed systems 1811. Softwarebased failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces yizheng zhou, vijay lakamraju, israel koren,fellow, ieee, and c. Characterizing processor architectures for programmable. Software defined networking sdn is a recent architectural framework. With the lack of programmability complicating networking innovations, it was the early 1990s when work on creating programmable network started in earnest. We describe the operation of openflow and summarize the features of specification versions 1.

These techniques rely mostly on special purpose hardware to replicate the program into redundant execution and compare their results. Programmable network interface card nic, single event upset seu, radiation induced faults, failure detection, failure recovery, selftesting. Softwarebased fault tolerance approaches are attractive, since they allow the implementation of dependable systems without incurring the high costs of using custom hardware or massive hardware redundancy. Krishna abstract emerging network technologies have complex network interfaces that have renewed concerns about network reliability. In the conventional network, we can find several ha mechanisms e. Orchestration and control in softwaredefined 5g networks.

Fast failure recovery is cru cial for largescale inmemory storage systems, bringing networkrelated challenges including false detection due to transient network problems, traffic congestion during the recovery, and topofrack switch failures. Softwarebased design flow to accelerate programmable soc. Architectures for online error detection and recovery in. Robust faultrecovery in softwaredefined networks ip networking. Krishnasoftwarebased failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces ieee transactions on parallel. Sdns logically centralized control and programmable. Finally, we point out architectural design choices for sdn using openflow and. Clinical workflow demands are growing for the integration of formally independent devices such as ventilator systems and patient monitoring systems. Failure on an upstream interface results in the automatic disabling of downstream interfaces in the uplinkstate group. It introduces flowbased programmable routing, by defining flows as packets. A system and method for observing and controlling a programmable network via higher layer attributes is disclosed. In the case of an attack detection, the recovery process in the scenario of network processors is easy. Softwaredefined networking sdn technology is an to network management that enables dynamic, programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring making it more like cloud computing than traditional network management.

Krishna, softwarebased failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces, ieee transactions on parallel and distributed systems, v. Wo20150653a1 a system and method for observing and. This happens very quickly to minimize lost traffic. Bfd provides a consistent failure detection method for network administrators at a uniform rather than variable rate, which makes profiling, planning, and reconvergence simpler and more predictable. Mani krishna, senior member, ieee abstractemerging network technologies have complex network interfaces. To ensure continuous availability of the network to send or receive traffic, ipmp performs failure detection on the ipmp groups underlying ip interfaces. It supports legacy and softwarebased network adapters, sriovenabled network adapters, virtual machine checkpoints, storage or network resource pools, and advanced networking features enabled on virtual machines.

Pdf softwarebased adaptive and concurrent selftesting. At the time there were two major, slightly differing schools, that advocated programmable networks. This can be done without any violation because the packet delivery in the internet protocol ip networks is not guaranteed. Failure mode and effects analysis of softwarebased. Mani krishna, senior member, ieee abstractemerging network technologies have complex network interfaces that have renewed concerns about network reliability. The term virtual network refers to the resulting software network entity. This allows for simultaneous detection of node absences and bus errors. Traditional softwarebased nids architectures are becoming strained as network data rates increase and attacks intensify in volume and complexity. The longly anticipated paradigm shift of software defined. Defined networking sdn, the network capability to establish. Therefore, a failure recovery scheme is a necessary requirement for. Software instrumentation for failure analysis of usb host controllers antonio sabatini, nathan jarus, pratik maheshwari, and sahra sedigh. We explain the notion of softwaredefined networking sdn, whose southbound interface may be implemented by the openflow protocol.

However, the main weakness of this approach is the low throughput that the softwarebased network functions provide. Abstractwhen dealing with node or link failures in software. Pdf softwarebased failure detection and recovery in. Probebased failure detection, when test addresses are configured. Performance study of raid5 disk arrays with data and parity cache s. Pdf fast failure detection and recovery in sdn with stateful data. We will explain how to use a softwarebased design flow that will enable you to create custom hardware accelerators for extracting the optimum performance needed for your application requirements from all programmable soc and mpsoc devices. Recovery crtr 6 are proposals for transient fault detection and recovery, respectively, based on chip multiprocessors. Inmemory storage has the benefits of low io latency and high io throughput.

Securing the data path of nextgeneration router systems. It can be achieved by dropping the packets that caused the failure. To supervise the network, a node may keep a table of all other nodes in the network from which it receives frames. At the heart of programmable data planes lies the question of which abstractions and programming interfaces to provide. They are deployed ubiquitously in myriad of networking environments ranging from cellular mobile networking, regional or citywide networking e. A node recognizes the frames sent through its source address and sequence number. Systemlevel health check and self healing to enable system stability. Failure and repair detection in ipmp oracle solaris. When a failure is detected, the network proceeds through a coordinated predefined sequence of steps to transfer or switchover live traffic to the backup facility protection facility. Approaches 4 and 35 adopt the straightforward architectural. Softwaredefined network sdn is an emerging architecture aimed to address this need.

In hospitals today, there is a trend towards the integration of different devices. The network elements nes in a sonetsdh network constantly monitor the health of the network. Defined networking sdn, the network capability to establish an alternative path depends on. Sdn adoption can improve network manageability, scalability and dynamism in enterprise data center.

Softwarebased failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces yizheng zhou, vijay lakamraju, israel koren, and c. Softwarebased failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces yizheng zhou, vijay lakamraju, israel koren, c. Embedded event manager eem is a distributed and customized approach to event detection and recovery offered directly in a cisco ios device. Adaptive security monitoring for nextgeneration routers.

We give an overview of existing sdnbased applications grouped by topic areas. Software instrumentation for failure analysis of usb host. In this paper, we present an effective lowoverhead failure detection technique, which is based on a software watchdog timer that detects network processor hangs and a selftesting scheme that detects interface failures other than processor hangs. Failed interfaces remain unusable until these are repaired. Network failure detection works with any virtual machine. A dependable network slicing scheme depends on the design of the adequate reaction mechanisms for recovery, based on accurate information of the failure events and the current state of the system. Applying safety goals to a new intensive care workstation. Our failure recovery is achieved by restoring the state of the network interface using a small backup copy containing just. Further investigation using a softwarebased monitor revealed that the blank display was the result of a software failure. As a result, ensuring scalable and robust faultrecovery in pure sdn networks is. Wireless networks have become increasingly popular due to the inherent convenience of untethered communication. Catalyst 4500 series switch software configuration. Failure mode and effects analysis of softwarebased automation systems. By decoupling the network control and data planes, sdnbased architecture abstracts the underlying infrastructure from the applications that utilize it.

Linkbased failure detection, if supported by the nic driver. Us20160285750a1 efficient topology failure detection in. Softwarebased fast failure recovery in load balanced sdn. The one or more collectors are configured to receive network traffic data from a plurality of network elements and extract metadata from the network. Emerging network technologies have complex network interfaces that have renewed concerns about network reliability. Storage failure detection for virtual machines hyperv and failover. Moreover, the presence of a double path for diagnostic messages, i. The recovery time objective is the amount of time a system can be offline during a disaster. According to one embodiment, the system includes one or more collectors, a network manager, and a programmable network element. A demonstration of fast failure recovery in software defined. Milliseconds network failure recovery and instantaneous reroute across all ports. However, due to the size and complexity, having proper and reliable information demands a system with the smartness to efficiently detect and filter. Techniques for performing efficient topology failure detection in sdn networks are provided.

Failure detection is based on a software watchdog timer that detects network processor hangs and a selftesting scheme that detects interface failures other than processor hangs. The proposed selftesting scheme achieves failure detection by periodically directing the control flow to go through only active software modules in order to detect. Software fault tolerance techniques and implementation. This scheme relies on the linkfailure detection by combining the primary. Iec 624393 hsrprp implementation on sitara processors. Softwarebased failure detection and recovery in programmable network interfaces december 2007 ieee transactions on parallel and distributed systems yizheng zhou. Sdn is meant to address the fact that the static architecture of traditional networks is decentralized and complex while. Linkbased failure detection is always enabled, provided that the interface supports this type of failure detection.