Give me a broadcast-free network

In computer networking, broadcasting means to transmit a packet to every device in one broadcast domain. Broadcasting is widely used in many protocols, like ARP [1], DHCP [2] and so on. The main reason is that in a distributed network, each node has no knowledge about the whole network. Therefore, t...

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Published in2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference pp. 1968 - 1973
Main Authors Po-Wen Chi, Yu-Cheng Huang, Jing-Wei Guo, Chin-Laung Lei
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2014
Subjects
Broadcasting
Control systems
IP networks
Local area networks
Ports (Computers)
Protocols
Servers
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Summary:In computer networking, broadcasting means to transmit a packet to every device in one broadcast domain. Broadcasting is widely used in many protocols, like ARP [1], DHCP [2] and so on. The main reason is that in a distributed network, each node has no knowledge about the whole network. Therefore, the node has to use broadcast ways to build its knowledge. However, for those who do not need to get or answer the broadcast message, the broadcast message is nothing but a noise packet. In this paper, we propose a broadcast handling framework in software defined networking. With this framework, a network manager can minimize the broadcast behavior in the network without impacting hosts. We also implement some broadcast handling modules in this work. We evaluate our framework's performance by comparing our framework with legacy networks and other SDN network platforms. We also discuss the impact of our framework to the spanning tree protocol.
ISSN:1930-529X
2576-764X
DOI:10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037096