SDN Research Roy Hockett - Network Architect January 14, 2014 Common Solutions Group workshop

Software Defined Networking (SDN) Not a new in idea, but new research area Management of networks has used flavors of SDN for years, Perl, SNMP, NetCONF, etc. R&E – Dragon, OSCARS, HOPI, DCN, etc. But as research area it is recent. – Clean Slate Project – 2007

SDN & Research Research on Networking and abstractions. – Genesis for SDN, etc. Research on SDN Implementations – Inter-Plane communication, Security, etc. Research that uses SDN as tool or component. – MobiLab, AGLT2

UM SDN Research UM Research that uses SDN as a tools – MobiLab – Atlas Great Lakes Tier 2 (AGLT2)

A global-scale live laboratory for supporting mobile computing science – Mobiperf – Mobile phone performance tool – PowerTutor – Power Display of Android phone – Transparent Off Engine (TOE) – Hi-Jack – Sensor peripherals for mobile phone. Directed by Dr. Morley Mao

Dr. Morley Mao Research: – Mobile Computing, networks issues – Mobile Cloud Computing – Routing Plane: Happy Packets – Routing protocol models – Others

LHC Computing and Muon Collaboration SDN Projects – DYNES – ANSE – Terapaths

UM SDN Strategy Environment for researchers and students to try new things. Ways to grow the scaling of the research. Ready for use of SDN on campus production network. Relationships with researchers and R&E Community.

UM SDN Strategy (details) Provide Sandbox for SDN research – GENI WiMax station and GENI racks on campus Interconnect SDN islands. – MPLS tunnels, vLANs, GRE tunnels Interconnect Sandbox and campus with Real SDN Networks at the Science DMZ. – GENI Mesoscale & Internet2 AL2S

UM SDN Strategy (Cont) Network Lab with multiple vendor switches for testing. Install an SDN capable infrastructure. – Border, Core, DataCenter, Building routers Participate in the R&E SDN Efforts – Intenet2 SDN Working Group – GENI Conferences

Testing scale of SDN research Control Plane – One Switch. (Vswitch) – Multiple Switches (Network lab) – Multiple Vendor’s Switches (Network Lab, GENI, Internet2) Data plane with traffic – Mininet (Virual Network) – Sandbox (GENI Mesoscale) – Real network (Internet2 AL2S)

Keys for SDN solution deployments Bright People with ideas. Developers to build the solution (Proof of Concept) Staff developers to make the solution production quality. Culture where maintaining code/solutions is welcomed. Relationship between Academics and IT staff.

Relationships Collaboration between Researchers and IT – Jointly written proposals CC-NIE for Univ. of Michigan – Sharing of ideas SDN Trace – SDN Working Group and Univ. of Houston researcher

Reference Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Surveyhttp://arxiv.org/abs/ http://arxiv.org/abs/