OF-NEDL: an openflow networking experiment description language based on XML

  • Authors:

  • Junxue Liang;Zhaowen Lin;Yan Ma

  • Affiliations:

  • Research Institute of Network Technology, China;Research Institute of Network Technology, China;Research Institute of Network Technology, China,Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Telecommunications Software and Multimedia, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • WISM'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Web Information Systems and Mining
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

OpenFlow is a promising future Internet enabling technology and has been widely used in the network research community to evaluate new network protocols, applications, and architectures. However, most of these research activities or experimentations are lack of a uniformed description so can be repeated by other researchers. In this paper, we investigate the general model of an OpenFlow networking experiment and propose a language, OF-NEDL, which aspires to bridge this gap by providing a simple, comprehensive and extensible language for describing OpenFlow networking experiment. OF-NEDL allows the researcher to write a script to control every aspect of an OpenFlow networking experiment, including the hierarchical network topology description, the OpenFlow network devices configuration, the experiment software deployment, the experiment process control, monitoring and output collection. Our preliminary usage scenario shows that it has the ability to describe simple but extensible networking experiment, and we expect to refine considerably its design to make it more practical in the future work.