HIFFR: Hybrid Intelligent Fast Failure Recovery Framework for Enhanced Resilience in Software Defined Networks

Rehab Alawadh*, Poonam Yadav*, Hamed Ahmadi

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Deploying new optimised routing policies on routers in the event of link failure is difficult due to the strong coupling between the data and control planes and the absence of topology information about the network. Because of the distributed architecture of traditional Internet protocol networks, policies and routing rules are spread in a decentralised way, resulting in looping and congestion problems. Software-defined networking (SDN) enables centralised network programmability. As a result, data plane devices just focus on packet forwarding, leaving the control plane's complexities to be managed by the controller. Thus, the controller centrally installs the policies and rules. Considering the controller's knowledge of the global network architecture, central control enhances the flexibility of link failure identification and restoration. Therefore, this paper uses SDN architecture to enhance network resilience against link failures by introducing the Hybrid Intelligent Fast Failure Recovery (HIFFR) framework, which aims to improve the speed and effectiveness of network failure recovery.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 11th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2024
EditorsSyed Ali Raza Zaidi, Khalil Ibrahimi, Mohamed El Kamili, Abdellatif Kobbane, Nauman Aslam
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350377866
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event11th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2024 - Leeds, United Kingdom
Duration: 23 Jul 202425 Jul 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings - 11th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2024

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLeeds
Period23/07/2425/07/24

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Keywords

  • Graph Neural Network (GNN)
  • Link Failure
  • Re-silience
  • Routing Protocols
  • Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

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