Trend-Based Networking Driven by Big Data Telemetry for SDN and Traditional Networks

TL;DR

This paper presents a scalable big data telemetry system for trend-based network management in SDN and traditional networks, enabling automated load balancing and improved network performance.

Contribution

It introduces an intelligent system leveraging big data telemetry analysis within PNDA, including a GUI, for dynamic, automated network optimization and benchmarking.

Findings

Developed a web-based GUI for network management.

Demonstrated effective trend analysis for load balancing.

Validated system scalability and benchmarking capabilities.

Abstract

Organizations face a challenge of accurately analyzing network data and providing automated action based on the observed trend. This trend-based analytics is beneficial to minimize the downtime and improve the performance of the network services, but organizations use different network management tools to understand and visualize the network traffic with limited abilities to dynamically optimize the network. This research focuses on the development of an intelligent system that leverages big data telemetry analysis in Platform for Network Data Analytics (PNDA) to enable comprehensive trend-based networking decisions. The results include a graphical user interface (GUI) done via a web application for effortless management of all subsystems, and the system and application developed in this research demonstrate the true potential for a scalable system capable of effectively benchmarking the network to set the expected behavior for comparison and trend analysis. Moreover, this research provides a proof of concept of how trend analysis results are actioned in both a traditional network and a software-defined network (SDN) to achieve dynamic, automated load balancing.