Software-Defined Networking with OpenFlow - Second Edition : Master OpenFlow Concepts to Improve and Make Your Projects Efficient with the Help of Software-Defined Networking.

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Software-Defined Networks -- Understanding SDN -- Characteristics of SDN -- Plane decoupling -- Central control and simple forwarding elements -- Network automation and virtualization -- SDN use cases -- Data center applications -- Campus networks applications -- Service provider applications -- Mobile network applications -- NFV -- How is NFV different from SDN? -- NFV challenges -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Introducing OpenFlow -- Activities around SDN/OpenFlow -- Building Blocks of an SDN deployment -- Header field -- Counters -- Actions -- Priority -- Timeouts -- Cookies -- Flags -- OpenFlow messages -- Controller-to-switch -- Features -- Configuration -- Modify-State -- Read-State -- Packet-out -- Barrier -- Role-Request -- Setting asynchronous configuration -- Symmetric messages -- Hello -- Echo -- Errors -- Experimenter -- Asynchronous messages -- Packet-in -- Flow-Removal -- Port-status -- Role-status -- Controller-status -- Table-status -- Request-forward -- Northbound interface -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Implementing the OpenFlow Switch -- OpenFlow reference switch -- Controller-to-switch messages -- Asynchronous messages -- Symmetric messages -- OpenFlow enabled switches -- Software-based switches -- Hardware-based switches -- OpenFlow laboratory with Mininet -- Getting started with Mininet -- Experimenting with Mininet -- Experimenting with Mininet GUI (MiniEdit) -- Getting started with MiniEdit -- Creating a custom topology on Mininet canvas -- Configuring the controller -- Configuring the switch -- Configuring the host -- Setting the MiniEdit preferences -- Saving the configuration -- Running a Mininet topology simulation, generating logs, and monitoring the flow table -- Summary.

Chapter 4: The OpenFlow Controllers -- Software-Defined Networking controllers -- Existing implementations -- NOX and POX -- Running a POX application -- NodeFlow -- Floodlight -- Virtual networking filter -- Firewall module -- Static flow pusher -- Network plugin for OpenStack -- ODL -- Ryu -- Ryu architecture -- Ryu libraries -- OpenFlow protocol and controller -- Managers and core processes -- Northbound -- Applications -- Installation of a Ryu controller -- Running a Ryu application -- Special controllers -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Setting Up the Environment -- Understanding the OpenFlow laboratory -- External controllers -- Completing the OpenFlow laboratory -- Replacing ethX with the name of the unnumbered interface -- ODL -- ODL controller -- ODL-based SDN laboratory -- SDN Hub starter VM kit -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Net App Development -- Net App 1 - an Ethernet learning switch -- Building the learning switch -- Net App 2 - a simple firewall -- Net App 3 - simple forwarding in OpenDaylight -- Net App 4 - simple switching hub using Ryu controller -- Executing the Simple Switching Hub -- Testing application -- Net App 5 - simple router using Ryu controller -- Creating the topology on Mininet -- IP address configuration on the hosts -- Configuring the default gateway on the host -- Starting the Ryu controller -- Configuring the address of the router (switch) -- Configuring the default gateway of the switch -- Verification -- Conclusion -- Net App 6 - simple firewall using Ryu controller -- Creating the topology on Mininet -- Starting the rest firewall application -- Enabling the firewall -- Creating rules -- Verifying that these rules have been set -- ICMP Verification -- Configuring deny instructions -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Getting a Network Slice -- Network virtualization -- FlowVisor -- Isolation mechanism -- Bandwidth isolation.

Topology isolation -- Switch CPU isolation -- New flow messages -- Controller requests -- Slow-path packet forwarding -- Internal state keeping -- Flowspace isolation -- OpenFlow control isolation -- FlowVisor API -- FLOW_MATCH structure -- Slice actions structure -- FlowVisor slicing -- Summary -- Chapter 8: OpenFlow in Cloud Computing -- OpenStack and Neutron -- OpenStack Networking architecture -- Neutron plugins -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Open Source Resources -- Controllers -- Beacon -- Floodlight -- Maestro -- Trema -- FlowER -- Ryu -- Open Network Operating System -- Atrium -- OpenContrail -- Miscellaneous -- FlowVisor -- Flowsim -- Avior -- RouteFlow -- OFlops and Cbench -- OSCARS -- Twister -- FortNOX -- Nettle -- Frenetic -- Open Exchange Software Suite -- Summary -- Chapter 10: The Future of SDN -- Packet forwarding innovations beyond OpenFlow -- POF -- POF architecture -- Structure of POFOX -- POFSwitch -- Programming protocol-independent packet processors -- P4 components -- Forwarding model of P4 -- Protocol-independent forwarding -- Table Type Patterns -- Relationship between TTP and OF-PI -- Goals of OF-PI -- Optical transport protocol extensions -- Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching -- Packet-optical Integration -- Summary -- Index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.