Specialization Software-defined Networking (Winter 2014/2015)

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Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	150h, 5 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.1230: Specialization Software-defined Networks (SDN)
Lecturer:	Dr. Mayutan Arumaithurai
Teaching assistant:	tba
Time:	March 23-27; 09.00-17.00
Place:	IfI 2.101
UniVZ	tba

Course Overview

Software-defined networking (SDN) has recently attracted both researchers in academia and big players in communication technologies, and is currently probably the 'hottest' topic in computer networking. This course is a continuation of the "Introduction to SDN" course and we will focus on gaining an advanced knowledge of SDN. The course is organized as a block course. Please see the following "Schedule" table for a detailed structure. The course will focus on reading and understanding recent papers in the SDN field to gain an in depth understanding of the current state of the art and potential research topics. We will also do a lot of exercises to familiarize ourselves with SDN tools.

For all parts of the course, exercises will be provided, in which students must obtain at least 50% of the total points and active participation in the group discussions to be admitted to the examination of this course. The exam is taken by submitting a report of 10-15 pages summarizing the lessons learned during the lectures and exercises as well as the research papers investigated (a LaTeX template will be provided). Depending on the number of attendees, several parts will be conducted in teams of students.

Schedule

Date	Morning Session I	Morning Session II	Afternoon Session I	Afternoon Session II
Time	9:15 - 10:45	11:00 - 12:30	14:00 - 15:30	15:30 -
23.03.2015	Lecture I: Enhancing Data Plane	Exercise I: Data Center topology	Group Discussion I	Exercise II: Simple load balancer
24.03.2015	Lecture II: Northbound API	Exercise III: Pox Firewall	Group Discussion II	Exercise IV: Pyretic Firewall
25.03.2015	Lecture III: Enhancing Data Plane - II	Exercise V: Kinetic Firewall	Group Discussion III	Exercise VI: Kinetic-pox loadbalancer
26.03.2015	Preparation for final presentation	Exercise VII: kinetic, pyretic debugging	Group Discussion IV	Exercise VIII: Service Chaining I
27.03.2015	Group Discussion V	Exercise IX: Service Chaining II	Final presentations I	Final presentation II

Requirements

• Basic knowledge in computer networking (e.g., successful completion of the course "Computer Networks") and object oriented programming is required.
• Completion of the course "Introduction to SDN", exceptions can be obtained on a case by case basis.
• Each participant is required to actively attend the course and earn 50% of the points of the exercise.
• Written report at the end of the course. The report should include the following:
  • Exercises results + code
  • Short report on the group discussion papers
  • Report on the paper presented by team-X for the final presentation

Lecture Slides

• Welcome [1]
• Lecture I: Enhancing Data Plane part1part2
• Lecture II: Northbound API part1 [2]

Exercises

23 March

• Exercise I: Data Centers [3]
• Exercise II: Fattree and Generic [4]

What to Submit

• source code for generic along with screenshot showing the links in mininet

24 March

• Exercise III: Load balancers (contd. exercise II) [5]
• Exercise IV: Firewall [6]

What to submit

• Submit src code and screenshot if you haven't shown me the running code yet

25 March

• Exercise V: Firewall (contd. ) [7]
• Exercise VI: Pyretic firewall [8]

26 March

• Exercise VII: Kinetic Firewall Instructions, Starting_Code
• Exercise VIII:

27 March

• Exercise IX:

Group Discussion Papers

• GD I: paper1paper2

• GD II: paper1paper2

• GD III: Discussed the 6 papers that were allocated for the final presentations

Papers for final presentation

• A Network-State Management Service, Sigcomm 2014 [9]
• Forwarding Metamorphosis: Fast Programmable Match-Action Processing in Hardware for SDN, Sigcomm 2013 [10]
• ClickOS and the Art of Network Function Virtualization, NSDI 2014 [11]
• Dynamic Scheduling of Network Updates, Sigcomm 2014 [12]
• I Know What Your Packet Did Last Hop: Using Packet Histories to Troubleshoot Networks, NSDI 2014 [13]
• Democratic Resolution of Resource Conflicts Between SDN Control Programs, CoNext 2014 [14]

Extra

• A Distributed and Robust SDN Control Plane for Transactional Network Updates, Infocom 2015 [15]