Mr. Shimizu’s paper regarding with Newly Structured Router Network Architecture was accepted for FutureNet Ⅱ.

title:Newly Structured Router Network Architecture using Cloud Control Plane and
Forwarding Plane
authors:Sho Shimizu Shan Gao Daisuke Ishii Naoaki Yamanaka
abstract:This paper proposes a novel network architecture called cloud control
plane (Cloud C-plane) to reduce the power consumption of networks. In
Cloud C-plane, the forwarding functions and control functions are
decoupled, and the control functions are placed in the cloud. In
addition, physical network topology is modified to improve the energy
efficiency when the load of traffic changes. The routing engine on a
dynamically reconfigurable processor (DRP) is a key component of Cloud
C-plane. We implement the prototype of the routing engine on an actual
DRP, and the experimental results show the execution time of the
prototype is 19 times faster in the shortest path calculation.