Making paths explicit in the Scout operating system
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Programming language optimizations for modular router configurations
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
In VINI veritas: realistic and controlled network experimentation
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Trellis: a platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Reproducible network experiments using container-based emulation
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
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This paper presents a case for applying the principles of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to middleboxes and end hosts. The challenges of configuring networking on network hosts resemble those addressed by SDN - numerous multi-vendor components, each with its own syntax and idiosyncratic corner cases, must be orchestrated smoothly. We have developed a prototype called NativeClick, a novel use of the Click Modular Router language, to orchestrate Linux networking tools. NativeClick demonstrates that, while existing SDN efforts have produced insufficient Abstractions to cover a wide range of networking behavior, SDN-like abstractions can make host configurations modular.