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
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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 Group Discussion IV Exercise VII: kinetic, pyretic debugging Preparation for final presentation 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

Papers for final presentations

Lecture Slides

Exercises

23 March

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

24 March

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

25 March

  • Exercise V: Pyretic firewall [7]

Group Discussion Papers


Papers for final presentation

Group I

  • Exploiting ICN for Flexible Management of Software-Defined Networks, ACM ICN 2014 [8]
  • A Network-State Management Service, Sigcomm 2014 [9]

Group II

  • Scotch: Elastically Scaling up SDN Control-Plane using vSwitch based Overlay, Conext 2015 [10]
  • A Distributed and Robust SDN Control Plane for Transactional Network Updates, Infocom 2015 [11]

Group III

  • Reliable Multicast Routing for Software-Defined Networks, Infocom 2015 [12]
  • Avalanche: Data Center Multicast using Software Defined Networking, COMSNETS 2014 [13]

Group IV

  • Forwarding Metamorphosis: Fast Programmable Match-Action Processing in Hardware for SDN, Sigcomm 2013 [14]
  • ClickOS and the Art of Network Function Virtualization, NSDI 2014 [15]

Group V

  • Dynamic Scheduling of Network Updates, Sigcomm 2014 [16]
  • I Know What Your Packet Did Last Hop: Using Packet Histories to Troubleshoot Networks, NSDI 2014 [17]