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Merlin: A Language for Provisioning Network Resources

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dc.contributor.authorSoulé, Robert
dc.contributor.authorBasu, Shrutarshi
dc.contributor.authorMarandi, Parisa Jalili
dc.contributor.authorPedone, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorKleinberg, Robert
dc.contributor.authorSirer, Emin Gün
dc.contributor.authorFoster, Nate
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-25T11:17:53Z
dc.date.available2014-06-25T11:17:53Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-25
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents Merlin, a new framework for managing resources in software-defined networks. With Merlin, administrators express high-level policies using programs in a declarative language. The language includes logical predicates to identify sets of packets, regular expressions to encode forwarding paths, and arithmetic formulas to specify bandwidth constraints. The Merlin compiler uses a combination of advanced techniques to translate these policies into code that can be executed on network elements including a constraint solver that allocates bandwidth using parameterizable heuristics. To facilitate dynamic adaptation, Merlin provides mechanisms for delegating control of sub-policies and for verifying that modifications made to sub-policies do not violate global constraints. Experiments demonstrate the expressiveness and scalability of Merlin on real-world topologies and applications. Overall, Merlin simplifies network administration by providing high-level abstractions for specifying network policies and scalable infrastructure for enforcing them.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/36705
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectSDNen_US
dc.subjectMerlinen_US
dc.titleMerlin: A Language for Provisioning Network Resourcesen_US
dc.typetechnical reporten_US

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