On Orchestration of Segment Routing and In-Band Network Telemetry

Abstract

With the rapid development of programmable data plane (PDP), both segment routing (SR) and in-band network telemetry (INT) have attracted intensive interests. Hence, we have previously proposed the technique of SR-INT, which explores the benefits of SR and INT simultaneously and gets rid of the hassle of the accumulated overheads of them. In this work, we further expand the advantage of SR-INT by studying how to plan the SR-INT schemes of flows at the network level to balance the tradeoff between bandwidth usage and coverage of network monitoring, namely, the problem of “SR-INT orchestration". A mixed integer linear programming model (MILP) is first formulated for the problem, and we prove its NP-hardness. Then, to reduce the time complexity of problem-solving, we propose a novel greedy algorithm based on path ranking and a column generation (CG) based approximation algorithm. Extensive simulations verify the performance of our proposed algorithms.