Software-defined Networking (Winter 2017/2018)

There are only 30 slots available, therefore register as soon as possible. In order to register, please send a subscription request here (best with your official university id and add your full name, else it is difficult for us to distinguish your request from a spam request) and wait for a week or two (we usually do batch processing, but in the order in which the requests arrived) and check if your name appears in the list of registered/waiting list participants: https://listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/listinfo/sdn-course

See here for the list of currently registered participants and the members in the waiting list: https://wiki.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/Software-defined_Networking_Registration

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Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	150h, 5 ECTS
Module:	AI: M.Inf.1130: Software-defined Networks (SDN); ITIS: 3.31
Lecturer:	Dr. David Koll; Dr. Mayutan Arumaithurai
Teaching assistant:	TBA
Time:	9 October - 13 October 2017
Place:	IFI 2.101
UniVZ	[1]

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 will introduce SDN in both its theoretical concepts as well as in practical hands-on lectures, in which students will be required to implement SDN applications.

Unlike previous editions, this edition of the SDN block course will be for 5 days and an examination will be held in late November, early December (The examination date will be announced soon).

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Note: For this course, basic proficiency in the Python programming language is required.

Schedule

Type	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	15:45 - 17.15
Theory	09.10.2017	Lecture I: Introduction to SDN	Exercise I	Lecture II: OpenFlow and its Applications	Exercise II
Theory	10.10.2017	Lecture III: Network Virtualization via SDN	Exercise III	Lecture IV: SDN Controllers	Exercise IV
Practical	11.10.2017	Tutorial I: Mininet: Basics, OpenFlow and Network Topologies -- Annotated Slides -- Rlab.py - custom_topo.py	Exercise Va & Exercise Vb	Tutorial II: Mininet and Controllers	Exercise VI
Practical	12.10.2017	Tutorial III: Mininet: Basics, OpenFlow and Network Topologies	Exercise VII	Lecture V: OpenStack	Tutorial IV: OpenStack
Theory/Practical	13.10.2017	Lecture VI: Enhancing Data Plane - I Middleboxes (part - I)	Exercise VIII	Tutorial V: NetVM	Tutorial V: NetVM

** Note: this session starts at 15:15. The subsequent exercise starts at approximately 16:00.