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A Clean Slate 4D Approach to Network Control and Management ∗ Albert Greenberg, Gisli Hjalmtysson, David A. Maltz, Andy Myers, Jennifer Rexford, Geoffrey Xie, Hong Yan, Jibin Zhan, Hui Zhang {dmaltz,acm,yh,jibin,hzhang}@ gisli@ru.is jrex@ albert@ xie@ ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Today’s data networks are surprisingly fragile and difficult to man- Although IP networking has been wildly successful, there are age. We argue that the root of these problems lies in the complexity serious problems lurking “under the hood.” IP networks exhibit a of the control and management planes—the software and protocols defining characteristic of unstable complex systems—a small local coordinating network elements—and particularly the way the de- event (e.g., misconfiguration of a routing protocol on a single in- cision logic and the distributed-systems issues are inexorably in- terface) can have severe, global impact in the form of a cascading tertwined. We advocate a complete refactoring of the function- meltdown. In addition, individual Autonomous Systems (ASes) ality and propose three key principles—network-level objectives, must devote significant resources to “working around” the con- network-wide views, and direct control—that we believe should straints imposed by today’s protocols and mechanisms to achieve underlie a new architecture. Following these principles, we identify their goals for traffic engineering, survivability, security, and pol- an extreme design point that we call “4D,” after the architecture’s icy e