A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
NOX: towards an operating system for networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Flow processing and the rise of commodity network hardware
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Virtualizing the network forwarding plane
Proceedings of the Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of Tomorrow
Onix: a distributed control platform for large-scale production networks
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Can the production network be the testbed?
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Nettle: taking the sting out of programming network routers
PADL'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Practical aspects of declarative languages
Frenetic: a network programming language
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
Kandoo: a framework for efficient and scalable offloading of control applications
Proceedings of the first workshop on Hot topics in software defined networks
Toward software-defined middlebox networking
Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Live migration of an entire network (and its hosts)
Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Composing software-defined networks
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Split/merge: system support for elastic execution in virtual middleboxes
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Enabling fast, dynamic network processing with clickOS
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking
Maestro: achieving scalability and coordination in centralizaed network control plane
Maestro: achieving scalability and coordination in centralizaed network control plane
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Rather than creating yet another network controller which provides a framework in a specific (potentially new) programming language and runs as a monolithic application, in this paper we extend an existing operating system and leverage its software ecosystem in order to serve as a practical SDN controller. This paper introduces yanc, a controller platform for software-defined networks which exposes the network configuration and state as a file system, enabling user and system applications to interact through standard file I/O, and to easily take advantage of the tools available on the host operating system. In yanc, network applications are separate processes, are provided by multiple sources, and may be written in any language. Applications benefit from common and powerful technologies such as the virtual file system (VFS) layer, which we leverage to layer a distributed file system on top of, and Linux namespaces, which we use to isolate applications with different views (e.g., slices). In this paper we present the goals and design of yanc. Our initial prototype is built with the FUSE file system in user space on Linux and has been demonstrated with a simple static flow pusher application. Effectively, we are making Linux the network operating system.