Application-Awareness in SDN

作者:Qazi Zafar*; Lee Jeongkeun; Jin Tao; Bellala Gowtham; Arndt Manfred; Noubir Guevara
来源:Computer Communication Review, 2013, 43(4): 487-488.
DOI:10.1145/2534169.2491700

摘要

We present a framework, Atlas, which incorporates application-awareness into Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which is currently capable of L2/3/4-based policy enforcement but agnostic to higher layers. Atlas enables fine-grained, accurate and scalable application classification in SDN. It employs a machine learning (ML) based traffic classification technique, a crowd-sourcing approach to obtain ground truth data and leverages SDN's data reporting mechanism and centralized control. We prototype Atlas on HP Labs wireless networks and observe 94% accuracy on average, for top 40 Android applications.