Validating resiliency in Software Defined Networks for smart grids

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Abstract

The communication network overlaying the power grid is required to be resilient to link failures among network devices. The Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture provides a fast-failover mechanism for provisioning networks that are seamlessly resilient. However, in order to guarantee that an SDN meets such resiliency requirements, its control-plane state needs to analyzed and validated against desired resiliency properties. In this paper, we present a framework to exhaustively analyze a snapshot of its control-plane state to compute packet flows between any pair of ports. We also present algorithms and data structures so that the changes caused by link failure/restoration to these packet flows can be computed incrementally. Our experimental results indicate that performing exhaustive analysis from scratch can take up to nine times longer than our proposed incremental computation algorithm.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages441-446
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509040759
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 8 2016
Event7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2016 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: Nov 6 2016Nov 9 2016

Publication series

Name2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2016

Other

Other7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2016
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period11/6/1611/9/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Control and Optimization
  • Signal Processing

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