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Host-Based Traffic Engineering: Network Endpoints with the Capabilities of SDN-Enabled Switches

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IT specialists' need for fine-grained control over traffic flow has recently gained prominence. The software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm provides a viable solution to the problem of directing network connections through arbitrary paths; however, for an enterprise to support traditional SDN it must upgrade most (if not all) of its switches to modern OpenFlow-enabled models. In this paper, we present SHARP, a host-based SDN design that achieves feature parity with traditional switch-based SDNs. SHARP uses VLAN tags and an overlay-style networking protocol to dictate how packets should be routed through a LAN. SHARP implements and surpasses the feature set of switch-based SDNs. To demonstrate the abilities of our system, we incorporate SHARP into PEACE, a next-generation SDN firewall.

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  • E-project-031419-163803
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  • 2019
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  • 2019-03-14
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