SuperFlow: A Reliable and Scalable Architecture for Large-Scale Enterprise Networks

With the increasing number of users, enterprise networks have become more and more important, but it also faced new challenges in various aspects. Though OpenFlow, the promising de facto Software defined networking (SDN) scheme which can provide fine-grained and flow-level control for enterprise networks, yet it still has a few undesirable designs in credibility and scalability. Inspired by OpenFlow-included many excellent studies, we have proposed a reliable and scalable architecture——SuperFlow for large-scale enterprise networks in this paper. It inherits the merits of OpenFlow, and overcomes OpenFlow’s limitations by introducing some novel features. The prototype experiment has proved that SuperFlow possesses these features with desirable performance.