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An Overview of OpenFlow. Andrew Williams. Agenda. What is OpenFlow ? OpenFlow -enabled Projects Plans for a large-scale OpenFlow deployment through GENI OpenFlow at N.C. State. Agenda. What is OpenFlow ? OpenFlow -enabled Projects - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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An Overview of OpenFlow
Andrew Williams
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Agenda
• What is OpenFlow?• OpenFlow-enabled Projects• Plans for a large-scale OpenFlow deployment
through GENI• OpenFlow at N.C. State
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Agenda
• What is OpenFlow?• OpenFlow-enabled Projects• Plans for a large-scale OpenFlow deployment
through GENI• OpenFlow at N.C. State
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A problem for researchers
• I’ve created a new routing algorithm, how can I test it out?
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What is OpenFlow?
• Switching specification that decouples a switches Control plane from it’s Data plane
http://www.openflow.org/documents/openflow-wp-latest.pdf
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How does it work?
• Uses flow-based routing rules stored in an OpenFlow-Enabled switch’s memory to successful forward incoming packets
• When a packet comes in that isn’t part of a flow, it is sent to the Controller
• Controller decides what to do with the packet/flow
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Matching packets at the Switch
• Incoming packets can be matched with flows based on:
• Ingress Port, Ether src, Ether dst, Ether type, VLAN id, VLAN priority, IPv4 src, IPv4 dst, TCP/UDP/SCTP src, TCP/UDP/SCTP dst, …
• Over 15 potential values defined in the OpenFlow 1.1.0 standard!
http://www.openflow.org/documents/openflow-spec-v1.1.0.pdf
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Main Benefit
• A researcher can have full control of the control plane without giving up the speed at which the hardware forwards packets
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OpenFlow-Enabled Switches
• Cisco Catalyst 6K series• Cisco Catalyst 3750• Juniper MX series• HP ProCurve 5400zl series and ProCurve 6600 series• Arista 7100 series• Pronto 3290 and 2780,• NEC IP8800• Ciena CoreDirector Circuit Switch• Dell and IBM rumored to be interested in OpenFlow
http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/SpiralTwo/GENIS2Ovrvw060310.pdf
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Agenda
• What is OpenFlow?• OpenFlow-enabled Projects• Plans for a large-scale OpenFlow deployment
through GENI• OpenFlow at N.C. State
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OpenFlow enabled projects
• FlowVisor - Dividing network resources into "slices“• Load balancing• PhoneNet – Direct Phone to Phone communication• Deploying in-network services (caching, firewall, etc.)• Turning an OpenFlow-enabled switch into an MPLS
switch• Many more!
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Agenda
• What is OpenFlow?• OpenFlow-enabled Projects• Plans for a large-scale OpenFlow deployment
through GENI• OpenFlow at N.C. State
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Also: Kansas State University, Internet2, and the National Lambda Rail
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Bringing everything together
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Agenda
• What is OpenFlow?• OpenFlow-enabled Projects• Plans for a large-scale OpenFlow deployment
through GENI• OpenFlow at N.C. State
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OpenFlow @ N.C. State
• RENCI, N.C. State, and the other nearby universities recently received 5 OpenFlow-Enabled switches
• RENCI has worked previously with GENI expanding its test bed offerings.
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/1132
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Let’s Discuss
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Performance Issues
• “Preliminary results suggested that an Ethane controller based on a low-cost desktop PC could process over 10,000 new flows per second — enough for a large college campus.”
• Have been alternatives proposed to address this issue– Pre-configuring routes before traffic is seen– A more hybrid approach - DIFANE
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DIFANE
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~minlanyu/writeup/difane10-TR.pdf
-Keeps packets travelling quickly in the network
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Ethane
• Precursor to OpenFlow• Outlined the ideas behind OpenFlow but didn’t get
vendors to integrate into their own products.• Limited to:– Ethane Wireless Access Point (WRTSL54GS wireless router
running OpenWRT)– Ethane 4-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (NetFPGA based)– Ethane 4-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (Software
implementation powered by a computer)
http://yuba.stanford.edu/~casado/ethane-sigcomm07.pdf
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• http://www.openflow.org/downloads/technicalreports/openflow-tr-2009-1-flowvisor.pdf
• http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/demos/sigcomm-pd-2009-final26.pdf
• http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/papers/held09k-huang.pdf
• http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1851262&type=pdf&CFID=15023189&CFTOKEN=46872270
• http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/OpenFlowMPLS