This document is a seminar synopsis on Software Defined Networking (SDN) presented by a student. It discusses how SDN aims to simplify network management by separating the data and control planes. This allows for a centralized software program to control network behavior rather than relying on low-level device configurations. It introduces Procera, an SDN control framework that uses high-level languages to configure network policies that can automatically react to changes in network state across different domains like time, data usage, authentication status and traffic flow. The student has deployed Procera in campus and home networks to demonstrate how it can simplify common management tasks and support richer network policies.
This document is a seminar synopsis on Software Defined Networking (SDN) presented by a student. It discusses how SDN aims to simplify network management by separating the data and control planes. This allows for a centralized software program to control network behavior rather than relying on low-level device configurations. It introduces Procera, an SDN control framework that uses high-level languages to configure network policies that can automatically react to changes in network state across different domains like time, data usage, authentication status and traffic flow. The student has deployed Procera in campus and home networks to demonstrate how it can simplify common management tasks and support richer network policies.
This document is a seminar synopsis on Software Defined Networking (SDN) presented by a student. It discusses how SDN aims to simplify network management by separating the data and control planes. This allows for a centralized software program to control network behavior rather than relying on low-level device configurations. It introduces Procera, an SDN control framework that uses high-level languages to configure network policies that can automatically react to changes in network state across different domains like time, data usage, authentication status and traffic flow. The student has deployed Procera in campus and home networks to demonstrate how it can simplify common management tasks and support richer network policies.
This document is a seminar synopsis on Software Defined Networking (SDN) presented by a student. It discusses how SDN aims to simplify network management by separating the data and control planes. This allows for a centralized software program to control network behavior rather than relying on low-level device configurations. It introduces Procera, an SDN control framework that uses high-level languages to configure network policies that can automatically react to changes in network state across different domains like time, data usage, authentication status and traffic flow. The student has deployed Procera in campus and home networks to demonstrate how it can simplify common management tasks and support richer network policies.
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VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL
UNIVERSITY Belgaum, Karnataka Basaveshvara Engineering College Vidaygiri, Bagalkot, Karnataka - 587102 Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Seminar Synopsis on
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Presented By Name: <> USN: <> For the academic year 2015-16 Under the Guidance of Prof : Department of Computer Science & Engineering Basaveshvara Engineering College Vidaygiri, Bagalkot, Karnataka 587102
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Network management is challenging. To operate, maintain, and secure a
communication network, network operators must grapple with low-level vendor-specific configuration to implement complex high-level network policies. Despite many previous proposals to make networks easier to manage, many solutions to network management problems amount to stopgap solutions because of the difficulty of changing the underlying infrastructure. The rigidity of the underlying infrastructure presents few possibilities for innovation or improvement, since network devices have generally been closed, proprietary, and vertically integrated. A new paradigm in networking, software defined networking (SDN), advocates separating the data plane and the control plane, making network switches in the data plane simple packet forwarding devices and leaving a logically centralized software program to control the behavior of the entire network. SDN introduces new possibilities for network management and configuration methods. In this article, I identify problems with the current state-of-the-art network configuration and management mechanisms and introduce mechanisms to improve various aspects of network management. I focus on three problems in network management: enabling frequent changes to network conditions and state, providing support for network configuration in a high level language, and providing better visibility and control over tasks for performing network diagnosis and troubleshooting. The technologies I describe enable network operators to implement a wide range of network policies in a high-level policy language and easily determine sources of performance problems. In addition to the systems themselves, I describe various prototype deployments in campus and home networks that demonstrate how SDN can improve common network management tasks.
Configuring computer networks is becoming increasingly vexing as network
operators must perform increasingly sophisticated network management tasks. Two of the main reasons that networks remain difficult to manage are: Continually changing network state
Low-level per-device network configuration The state-of-the-art methods for
network configuration do not allow network operators to configure network policies that automatically react to low-level networking events, and they do not allow operators to express network policies in terms of high-level intent. Software defined networking introduces a vehicle for raising the level of abstraction for network configuration, and designing languages and network controllers that automatically react to frequent and continual changes to network state. To simplify various aspects of network operations and management, I have designed and implemented Procera, an event-driven network control framework based on SDN. Network operators can use four control domains time, data usage, authentication status, and traffic flow to implement and enforce a reactive network policy with our high-level configuration language based on functional reactive programming. I use the OpenFlow protocol to communicate between the Procera controller and the underlying network switches. I have deployed our system in both a campus network and many home networks; our deployment experience and evaluation show that Procera is feasible, introduce more possibilities for expressing a richer set of network policies, and significantly reduce the complexity of network management in a variety of network settings and for a range of network policies.
