POSTER: Self-Healing Mechanisms for Software-Defined Networks

Abstract: Operators perceive programmable networks brought by Software Defined Networks (SDN) as cornerstone to decrease the time to deploy new services, to augment the flexibility and to adapt network resources to customer needs at runtime. However, despite the vulnerabilities identified due that the intelligence is centralized on SDN, its research is more centered on forwarding traffic and reconfiguration issues, not considering to a great extent the fault management aspects of the control plane. This paper provides SDN with fault management capabilities by using autonomic principles like self-healing mechanisms. We propose a generic self-healing approach that relies on a Bayesian Networks for the diagnosis block and we applied this algorithm to a centralized SDN infrastructure to prove its functioning in the presence of faults.