Improving the Scalability of Data Center Networking with Protocol-independent Source Routing

Sensor networks generate large volumes of data that require robust processing, storage, and analysis capabilities provided by data centers. Software-defined networking, as a new network technique for designing and building networks, provides new concepts and solutions for the framework based on the OpenFlow protocol cannot support new protocols or actively add unknown protocols, since they cause the control plane protocol to become more bloated. It is difficult to solve the problem of network scalability because components are being continuously redesigned. Therefore, an optimized source routing technology is proposed in combination with the protocol-oblivious forwarding technology. Furthermore, a low-cost and extensible network switch is designed to realize the independent data forwarding mechanism that effectively reduces the amount of network control signaling. The experimental results show that the scheme can significantly reduce the scale of flow table items and improve the hardware forwarding rates as well as the flexibility of forwarding rules. Moreover, the design scheme has a good application prospect.