Technology of Information Security
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2479-2483,2489

P4-based rules consistency verification for SDN control-data plane

Xia Jiqiang
Cui Pengshuai
Li Ziyong
Lan Julong
Institute of Information Technology Research, People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450000, China

Abstract

To solve the inconsistency of flow rules between the control plane and data plane caused by SDN data plane software and hardware faults, configuration faults, etc., this paper proposed a P4-based consistency verification mechanism for SDN control-data plane(P4CV). P4CV firstly sent probes with a specific structure to the data plane, and then each P4 switch inserted its runtime information of flow rules in the data plane into the probes. Finally, P4CV adopted the consistency-verification algorithm, based on symbolic execution, to compare the configuration from the control plane and telemetry information from the data plane. The simulation results show that the single path verification time of P4CV is not affected by the network topology and is only linearly related to the number of nodes on the path. In a multipath forwarding scenario, with the same network scale and traffic rules configured, P4CV generates only 0.06‰ of bandwidth overhead and reduces the verification time by 42% compared with the existing scheme.

Foundation Support

国家重点研发计划项目
国家自然科学基金资助项目

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2021.12.0694
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Printed Article, Vol. 39, 2022 No. 8
Section: Technology of Information Security
Pages: 2479-2483,2489
Serial Number: 1001-3695(2022)08-041-2479-05

Publish History

[2022-03-15] Accepted Paper
[2022-08-05] Printed Article

Cite This Article

夏计强, 崔鹏帅, 李子勇, 等. 基于P4的SDN控制—数据平面流规则一致性校验 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2022, 39 (8): 2479-2483,2489. (Xia Jiqiang, Cui Pengshuai, Li Ziyong, et al. P4-based rules consistency verification for SDN control-data plane [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2022, 39 (8): 2479-2483,2489. )

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