Academic papers:

  1. Cevik, M., Stealey, M., Wang, C., Bezerra, J., Ibarra, J., Chergarova, V., Morgan, H. & Xin, Y. (2022, July). Towards Production Deployment of a SDX Control Framework. In 2022 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) (pp. 1-10). IEEE. Abstract

  2. Bezerra, J., Ibarra, J., Quintana Torres, A., Valcy Da Silva Brito, I., Chergarova, V., Morgan, H., LeClerc, M., Ker, B. (2022) AmLight Real Time In-Band Telemetry Within the NoviFlow Switches. In: Arai K. (eds) Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 439. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98015-3_45 Abstract

  3. Chergarova V., Hur I., Wang L., Sun J. (2022) Examining Software Defined Networking Adoption by Research and Educational Networks. In: Arai K. (eds) Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 439. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98015-3_46 Abstract

  4. Bezerra, J., Brito, I., Quintana, A., Ibarra, J., Chergarova, V., Frez, V., Morgan, H., LeClerc, M., and Paneri, A. 2021. Deploying per-packet telemetry in a long-haul network: the AmLight use case. Supercomputing Conference (SC21) The 8th Annual International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS 2021), St. Louis, MO Abstract

  5. Bezerra, J., Ibarra, J., Quintana, A.,Brito, I., Morgan, H., Chergarova, V., Paneri, A.,Ker, B., and LeClerc, M. 2021. NRE-012: In-Band Network Telemetry @ AmLight, Supercomputing Conference (SC21), St. Louis, MO. NRE Abstract

  6. Lehman, T., Schwarz, M., Trompert, H., Cho, B., Newman, H., Balcas, J., Sirvinskas, R., Chang, J., Yang, X., MacAuley, J., Guok, C., Monga, I., Hess, J., Yeh, F.I., Chen, J.H., Mambretti, J., Graham, J., Defanti, T., Hutton, T., Wuerthwein, F., Zane, C., Bellamine, S., Fox, L., Hažlinský, M., Hoeft, B., Bezerra, J., Ibarra, J., Morgan, H., and GNA-G AutoGOLE/ SENSE WG Members. 2021. NRE-016: AutoGOLE/SENSE: End-to-End Network Services and Workflow Integration, Supercomputing Conference (SC21), St. Louis, MO. NRE Abstract

  7. Bezerra, J., Cadenas, L.E.,Chergarova, V., Cox, D.A., Greaves, D., Grizendi, E., Hazin, A., Ibarra, J., Lopez, L.F., Lotz, L., Mammen, S., Morgan, H., Stanton, M., Teixeira, M., Wiener, S., 2021. Introducing new technologies, innovations, and collaborations in R&E Networking between Africa, Latin America, Europe and the US through new international projects. WACREN 2021 Abstract

  8. Cevik, M., Stealey, M., Wang, C., Bezerra, J., Ibarra, J., Chergarova, V., Morgan, H., and Xin, Y., “Towards Production Deployment of a SDX Control Framework” 2020, Technical report
  9. Ibarra, J., Morgan, H., DeFanti, T., Wuerthwein, F., “Integrating Open Science Grid (OSG) with Software Defined Exchange (SDX) Projects Workshop Report” 2019, Workshop report
  10. Chergarova, V., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Bezerra, J., “Factors influencing the adoption of Software Defined Networking by Research and Educational Networks”, The annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Cancun, Mexico, August 15-17, 2019 Abstract
  1. Chung, J., Donovan, S., Bezerra, J., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Clark, R., and Owen, H. “Novel network services for supporting big data science research”. Journal of  Future Generation Computing Systems, Volume 98, 2019, Pages 512-521, ISSN 0167-739X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.03.047.
  1. Chung, J., Kettimuthu, R., Pho, N., Clark, R., Owen, H. “Orchestrating intercontinental advance reservations with software-defined exchanges”. Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 95, 2019, Pages 534-547, ISSN 0167-739X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.01.040.
  1. Chung, J., Jung. ES., Kettimuthu, R., Rao, NSV., Foster, I., Clark, R., and Owen, H. “Advance Reservation Access Control Using Software- Defined Networking and Tokens”. Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 79, Part 1, 2018, Pages 225-234, ISSN 0167-739X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.03.010.
  1. Bezerra, J., Ibarra, J., Schwarz, M., Freitas, H., & Morgan, H. J. S. W. “Mitigating the Risks of Supporting Multiple Control Plans in a Production SDN Network: A Use Case”. In Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems – XXXV SBRC 2017, Pages 34-37, https://sbrc2017.ufpa.br/workshop/wpeif/2017.
  1. Chung, J., Donovan, S., Bezerra, J., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Clark, R., and Owen, H, “Orchestrating Intercontinental Advance Reservations with Software-Defined Exchanges” at the 4th International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) 2017
  1. Cox, J., Chung, J., Donovan, S., Ivey, J., Clark, R., Riley, G., Owen, H. “Advancing Software-Defined Networks: A Survey”. IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 25487-25526, 2017. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2762291
  1. Chung, J., Cox, J., Clark, R., and Owen, H., “FAS: Federated auditing for software-defined exchanges”. Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2017, pp. 1-8, March 2017.
  1. Donovan, S., Chung, J., Sanders, M., Clark, R., “MetroSDX: A resilient edge network for the smart community,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kona, HI, 2017, pp. 575-580.
    doi: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917626
  1. Chung, J., Donovan, S., Bezerra, J., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Clark, R., & Owen, H., “Novel network services for supporting big data science research”. Paper presented at the Gateways 2017, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI October 2017.
  1. Donovan, S., Clark, R., & Bezerra, J., “From Network Administrator to Domain Scientist: Challenges with Creating Usable High Speed Networks”. Paper presented at the Internet2 Technology Exchange 2017.
  1. Chung, J., Clark, R., and Owen, H. “SDX Architectures: A Qualitative Analysis”. Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2016, pp. 1-8, March 30 – April 3, 2016.
  1. Chung, J., Owen, H., Clark, R. “SDX architectures: A qualitative analysis”. SoutheastCon 2016, Norfolk, VA, 2016, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1109/SECON.2016.7506749
  1. Joaquín Chung, Jacob Cox, Julio Ibarra, Jerônimo Bezerra, Heidi Morgan, Russell Clark, Henry Owen: “AtlanticWave-SDX: An International SDX to Support Science Data Applications”, SuperComputing Conference (SC15) Software Defined Networking (SDN) for Scientific Networking Workshop, Austin, TX, 20 Nov 2015.
  1. Chung, J., Cox, J., Ibarra, J., Bezerra, J., Morgan, H., Clark, R., & Owen, H., “Atlanticwave-sdx: An international sdx to support science data applications”, Paper presented at the Software Defined Networking (SDN) for Scientific Networking Workshop, SC15, 2015.

Selected Abstracts

Paper/Poster Title: Orchestrating intercontinental advance reservations with software-defined exchanges

Chung, J., Kettimuthu, R., Pho, N., Clark, R., & Owen, H. (2019). Orchestrating intercontinental advance reservations with software-defined exchanges. Future Generation Computer Systems, 95, 534-547. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.01.040

Paper Abstract: To interconnect research facilities across wide geographic areas, network operators deploy science networks, also referred to as research and education networks. These networks allow experimenters to establish dedicated circuits between research facilities for transferring large amounts of data by using advanced reservation systems. Intercontinental dedicated circuits typically require coordination among multiple administrative domains, which need to reach an agreement on a suitable advance reservation. The success rate of finding an advance reservation decreases as the number of participant domains increases for traditional systems because the circuit is composed over a single path. To improve provisioning of multidomain advance reservations, we have designed and implemented an architecture for end-to-end service orchestration in multidomain science networks that leverages software-defined exchanges for providing multipath, multidomain advance reservations. Our orchestration architecture improves the reservation success rate from 50% in single-path systems to 99% when four paths are available.

Title:  Architectural Approaches to a Science Network Software-defined Exchange

Committee: Dr. Henry Owen, ECE, Chair, Advisor; Dr. George Riley, ECE; Dr. Raheem Beyah, ECE; Dr. Russ Clark, ECE; Dr. Mustaque Ahamad, CoC

Abstract: To interconnect research facilities across wide geographic areas, network operators deploy science networks, also referred to as Research and Education (R&E) networks. These networks allow experimenters to establish dedicated circuits between research facilities for transferring large amounts of data, by using advanced reservation systems. Intercontinental dedicated circuits typically require coordination between multiple administrative domains, which need to reach an agreement on a suitable advance reservation. The success rate of finding an advance reservation decreases as the number of participant domains increases for traditional systems because the circuit is composed over a single path. To improve provisioning of multi-domain advance reservations, we propose an architecture for end-to-end service orchestration in multi-domain science networks that leverages software-defined exchanges (SDX) for providing multi-path, multi-domain advance reservations. Our orchestration architecture increases the reservation success rate from approximately 50% using single path to at most 99% when four paths available. We evaluate our solution using GridFTP, one of the most popular tools for data transfers in the scientific community. Additionally, we propose an intuitive interface that domain scientists can use to request science network services from our orchestration framework. Furthermore, we present a federated auditing framework (FAS) that allows an SDX to verify whether the configurations requested by a user are correctly enforced by participating SDN domains, whether the configurations requested are correctly removed after their expiration time, and whether configurations exist that are performing non-requested actions.

Chung, J., Donovan, S., Bezerra, J., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Clark, R., Owen, H., “Novel Network Services for Supporting Big Data Science Research“, 12th Gateway Computing Environments Conference, October 23-25, 2017

SDX User Interface Demo:
Network Operator: https://youtu.be/EczfnoeHbgQ
Scientist: https://youtu.be/tjoKZNM41Qk
AtlanticWave-SDX’s Presentation | Poster | Paper
For trying out the AtlanticWave/SDX controller visit the Github link

Donovan, S., Chung, J., Sanders, M., & Clark, R. (2017, March). MetroSDX: A resilient edge network for the smart community. In Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2017 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 575-580). IEEE.

Abstract: Smart and connected communities and their associated edge devices are creating new demands on network services. Edge network connectivity is often not resilient to failures, leading to data loss when network devices are isolated by the failure of a single service provider, while other providers are still functional. We propose MetroSDX, a neutral network design that increases the resiliency of edge networks and global and local services, improves isolation of network functions, and preserves data from edge devices when they are disconnected. MetroSDX is a software-defined exchange, a meet-me point for exchanging computing, storage, and networking resources. This work focuses on MetroSDX’s approach to location specific resilience and performance in this multi-network paradigm with an eye towards addressing increased demands from the growing set of connected devices and services which will increasingly and inevitably require communication between and across elements connected to multiple networks.

Digital copy: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7917626/

Guo, Y., Feamster, N., Clark, R., Elliott, C., Gupta, A., Hu, H., Kim, H., Krishnamurthy, B., Krishnaswamy, P., Lehman, T., Mambretti, J., Reese, D., Sobieski, J., Song, H., Stern, D. (2016, February). Editors: Ricci, R., Feamster, N., “SDXes in Practice” Paper presented at SDIWorkshop16 in Report of the NSF Workshop on Software Defined Infrastructures and Software Defined Exchanges. Washington, DC, (pp 17-19) Retrieved July 2016, from http://www.flux.utah.edu/beyond-internet-workshops/sdi/sdi-workshop-report.pdf

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Hendriks, L.; Schmidt, R.; Sadre, R.; Bezerra, J.; Pras, A.. Assessing the Quality of Flow Measurements from OpenFlow Devices. 8th International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis. Belgium, 2016

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Joaquín Chung, Jacob Cox, Julio Ibarra, Jerônimo Bezerra, Heidi Morgan, Russell Clark, Henry Owen: “AtlanticWave-SDX: An International SDX to Support Science Data Applications” ,Super Computing Conference(SC15) Software Defined Networking (SDN) for Scientific Networking Workshop, Austin, TX, 20 Nov, 2015

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Julio Ibarra, Jeronimo Bezerra, Heidi Alvarez,Donald A. Cox, III, Michael Stanton, Iara Machado, and Eduardo Grizendi: “Benefits brought by the use of OpenFlow/SDN in the AmLight intercontinental research and education network” ,IM 2015 – 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management, Ottawa, Canada, 11-15 May, 2015

*IEEE/IM2015 Best Experience Paper Award

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