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Design and Implementation of Support System for Network Testing with Whitebox Switches

Authors:
Megumi Shibuya
Hidehiko Kawakami
Teruyuki Hasegawa
Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Keywords: Whitebox Switch; Chef; Automated Verification; OSS; DevOps

Abstract:
In this paper, we design and implement an automated network testing system that enables network testing operators to observe the behavior of networks under a variety of failures. We aim at automating the network failure testing of commercial networks, which is often time consuming since much effort is needed for network configuration, test scenario execution, evaluation report creation, and cause analysis of erroneous behavior. Moreover, we consider such an environment where whitebox switches and legacy switches co-exist. Whitebox switches are composed of commodity-based hardware components where Open Source Software (OSS), such as Chef can be used to manage them, while legacy switches are usually operated by vendor-dependent tools. Our system hides such difference and provides a seamless and automated management scheme in such heterogeneous environment. We have implemented the proposed system to confirm its effectiveness and feasibility.

Pages: 39 to 44

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: November 13, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-517-3

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2016 to November 17, 2016