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Software-defined networking (SDN) enables controlling the behavior of a network in software, by managing the forwarding rules installed on switches. However, it can be difficult to ensure that certain properties are preserved during periods of reconfiguration. The widely-accepted notion of per-packet consistency requires every packet to be forwarded using the new configuration or the old configuration, but not a mixture of the two. A (partial) order on switches is a consistent order update if updating the switches in that order guarantees per-packet consistency. A consistent order update is optimal if it allows maximal parallelism, where switches may be updated in parallel if they are incomparable in the order. This paper presents a polynomial-time algorithm for computing optimal consistent order updates. This contrasts with other recent results, which show that for other properties (e.g., loop-freedom and waypoint enforcement), the optimal update problem is np-complete.
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Černý, P., Foster, N., Jagnik, N., McClurg, J. (2016). Optimal Consistent Network Updates in Polynomial Time. In: Gavoille, C., Ilcinkas, D. (eds) Distributed Computing. DISC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9888. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53426-7_9
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