Towards Systematic Design of Enterprise Networks
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Sung, Y.
Rao, S.
Maltz, D.
Xie, Geoffrey
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2008-12
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December 2008
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Enterprise networks are important, with size and complexity even surpassing carrier networks. Yet, the design of enterprise networks remains ad hoc and poorly understood. In this paper, we show how a systematic design approach can handle two key areas of enterprise design: virtual local area networks (VLANs) and reachability control. We focus on these tasks given their complexity, prevalence, and time-consuming nature. Our contributions are threefold. First, we show how these design tasks may be formulated in terms of network-wide performance, security, and resilience requirements. Our formulations capture the correctness and feasibility constraints on the design, and they model each task as one of optimizing desired criteria subject to the constraints. The optimization criteria may further be customized to meet operator-preferred design strategies. Second, we develop a set of algorithms to solve the problems that we formulate. Third, we demonstrate the feasibility and value of our systematic design approach through validation on a large-scale campus network with hundreds of routers and VLANs.
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Proc. ACM CoNEXT Conference, Madrid, Spain, December 2008. An extended version in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol 19, no. 3, pp. 695-708, June 2011.
The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1544012.1544034
The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1544012.1544034
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.