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Open Source Network: A foundation for SDN & NFV

With the arrival of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), a number of open-source initiatives have been formed to share knowledge and collaboratively drive the industry forward: OpenDayligth, OpenStack, OpenFlow, OpenCompute, Linaro, OpenDatapath and more. All aim to be virtual networking systems that use existing standards so that switches of all kinds can be software-controlled via an open source platform. The goal is to create an open and transparent approach to SDN and NFV.

The more recent initiative, OpenDaylight, has been launched by the Linux Foundation in April 8, 2013. By supporting open standards such as the OpenFlow, OpenDaylight aims to deliver a common open source framework and platform for SDN across the industry for customers, partners and developers. At the management level of the network , the OpenStack Community is also contributing to the development of OpenDaylight solution by integrating the controller with their Quantum component. Other Open Source initiatives such as Linaro and DPDK will seek to virtualizes the data plane to support the NFV functions.

The first release of the OpenDaylight project, called Hydrogen, comes in three editions: Base Edition, Virtualization Edition, and Service Provider Edition, each aimed at different markets. Base includes the core controller software, plug-ins and protocol libraries for OpenFlow, and configuration databases and tools for Open vSwitch servers and Yang projects. The other two editions include tools for things like DDoS detection, multitenancy, traffic engineering, and SNMP support for managing commodity Ethernet switches. With this platform customers and vendors should be able to develop SDN and NFV based solutions.





During the Open Source Network Summit, to be held in Paris next 16-18 December, experts will discuss the benefits of these open-source initiatives but also the questions still remaining to be solved.


Call for proposals

The following list of topics is not exhaustive and authors may propose other subjects in keeping within the thematic framework.

- Deployment experience using the OpenDayligth/Openflow/OpenStack or related products

- Discussion/presentation of applications that utilise any integration of the OpenDayligth /Openflow/OpenStack based tools - Data Center experiment deployment based on Opendayligth/Openflow/OpenSack initiatives

- Research challenges related to OpenDayligth such as scalability and performance of the controller, South-bound plug-ins, North-bound APIs, Forwarding abstractions, APIs, object models.

- Service chaining and orchestration with OpenDayligth

- Research challenges related to Openflow such as scalability and performance of the OpenFlow switch such as Matchfield Tables, InterOperability, Traffic Isolation, Pipelining strategy, Resource Allocation.

- Practical experiments on SDN/NFV based on OpenDayligth/OpenFlow/OpenStack initiatives

- Research challenges related to Openstack such as Scalability and Configurability of the Quantum Services such as Multi-Tenancy, Security, Isolation and energy efficiency



Abstracts must not exceed one page. They may be submitted by email at: info@upperside.fr or remi.scavenius@wanadoo.fr

Deadline

Deadline for turning in abstracts: May 31, 2014
     
     
     
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