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Netboa: Self-driving network benchmarking

  • Johannes Zerwas
  • , Patrick Kalmbach
  • , Laurenz Henkel
  • , Gábor Rétvári
  • , Wolfgang Kellerer
  • , Andreas Blenk
  • , Stefan Schmid
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Technical University of Budapest
  • Vienna-UNI

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Abstract

Communication networks have not only become a critical infrastructure of our digital society, but are also increasingly complex and hence error-prone. This has recently motivated the study of more automated and self-driving networks: networks which measure, analyze, and control themselves in an adaptive manner, reacting to changes in the environment. In particular, such networks hence require a mechanism to recognize potential performance issues. This paper presents NetBOA, an adaptive and data-driven approach to measure network performance, allowing the network to identify bottlenecks and to perform automated what-if analysis, exploring improved network configurations. As a case study, we demonstrate how the NetBOA approach can be used to benchmark a popular software switch, Open vSwitch. We report on our implementation and evaluation, and show that NetBOA can find performance issues efficiently, compared to a non-data-driven approach. Our results hence indicate that NetBOA may also be useful to identify algorithmic complexity attacks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNetAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network Meets AI and ML, Part of SIGCOMM 2019
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages8-14
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450368728
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Aug 2019
Event2019 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network Meets AI and ML, NetAI 2019, Part of SIGCOMM 2019 - Beijing, China
Duration: 23 Aug 2019 → …

Publication series

NameNetAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network Meets AI and ML, Part of SIGCOMM 2019

Conference

Conference2019 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network Meets AI and ML, NetAI 2019, Part of SIGCOMM 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period23/08/19 → …

Keywords

  • Automated network measurements
  • Automated performance analysis
  • Bayesian optimization
  • Self-driving networks

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