Kumori: Steering Cloud traffic at IXPs to improve resiliency
Résumé
After a few years of infancy, Cloud services have
now gained enough maturity to be used to deliver an increasing
number of critical services. To ensure the capacity of those
services to survive failure events, major Cloud Services Providers
(CSPs) deploy their platform in distant datacenters. The framework
used to interconnect those datacenters is most of the time
over-provisioned and costly to manage. In this paper, we present
”Kumori”, a SDN-based overlay architecture designed to give
CSPs back control on their inter-datacenter connectivity. Using
the iPlane dataset, we compare our architecture with the Resilient
Overlay Network (RON), considered as a seminal project on
Internet resiliency for the last ten years. Our results show that,
depending on the CSP’s size and connectivity strategy, our
architecture either gives significantly shorter paths than RON
in terms of latency or provides a similar servic