Title
Cost-Effective N:1 Firewall Array Via Subnet-Levcl Load Balancing by SDN/OpenFlow Switches
Date Issued
05 December 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Enterprise networks' firewalls are rarely set up in a shared-protection (N:1) configuration, preferring instead the more costly active-stand by (1+1) configuration. This is due to, in part, to the high cost associated with software-based per-flow load balancing at high traffic loads. In this work, we propose the use of SDN/OpenFlow switches as a low-cost hardware-based alternative for subnet-level load balancing, for use in a N:1 firewall array. Our design guarantees that the N:1 system exhibits the same performance of a 1+1 system but at a much lower cost. In particular, the design provides lossless firewall handover of subnets in response to traffic bursts. A prototype of the system has been implemented in Python over the base of the Floodlight OpenFlow Controller and tested in our SDN Test-Bed using the ISPDSL II traffic traces, evaluating the behavior during traffic peaks. Initial results show that the system successfully migrate subnet traffic without packet losses, call blockings, or TCAM exhaustion.
Number
8564610
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85060370260
Resource of which it is part
2018 IEEE ANDESCON, ANDESCON 2018 - Conference Proceedings
ISBN of the container
978-153868372-9
Conference
9th IEEE ANDESCON, ANDESCON 2018
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