The challenges of managing datacenter traffic increase with the complexity and variety of new Internet and Web applications. Efficient network management systems are often required to thwart delays and minimize failures. In this regard, it appears helpful to identify in advance the different classes of flows that (co)exist in the network, characterizing them into different types according to the different latency/bandwidth requirements. In this paper, we propose Howdah, a traffic identification and profiling mechanism that uses Machine Learning and a congestion-aware forwarding strategy to offer adaptation to different traffic classes with the support of programmable data-planes. With Howdah, sender and gateway elements inject in-band traffic information obtained using supervised learning. When a switch or a router receives a packet, it exploits such host-based traffic classification to adapt to a desirable traffic profile, for example, balancing the load. We compare our solutions against recent traffic engineering solutions and show the efficacy of cooperation between host traffic classification and P4-based switch forwarding policies, reducing packet transmission time in datacenter scenarios.

Howdah: Load Profiling via In-Band Flow Classification and P4 / Angi, Antonino; Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido; Clemm, Alexander. - ELETTRONICO. - (2022), pp. 46-54. (Intervento presentato al convegno 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) tenutosi a Thessaloniki (GR) nel 31 October 2022 - 4 November 2022) [10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9964510].

Howdah: Load Profiling via In-Band Flow Classification and P4

Angi, Antonino;Sacco, Alessio;Marchetto, Guido;
2022

Abstract

The challenges of managing datacenter traffic increase with the complexity and variety of new Internet and Web applications. Efficient network management systems are often required to thwart delays and minimize failures. In this regard, it appears helpful to identify in advance the different classes of flows that (co)exist in the network, characterizing them into different types according to the different latency/bandwidth requirements. In this paper, we propose Howdah, a traffic identification and profiling mechanism that uses Machine Learning and a congestion-aware forwarding strategy to offer adaptation to different traffic classes with the support of programmable data-planes. With Howdah, sender and gateway elements inject in-band traffic information obtained using supervised learning. When a switch or a router receives a packet, it exploits such host-based traffic classification to adapt to a desirable traffic profile, for example, balancing the load. We compare our solutions against recent traffic engineering solutions and show the efficacy of cooperation between host traffic classification and P4-based switch forwarding policies, reducing packet transmission time in datacenter scenarios.
2022
978-3-903176-51-5
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