《《2016 - openflow：enabling the innovation incampus network》.pdf

OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks March 14, 2008 Nick McKeown Tom Anderson Hari Balakrishnan Stanford University University of Washington MIT Guru Parulkar Larry Peterson Jennifer Rexford Stanford University Princeton University Princeton University Scott Shenker Jonathan Turner University of California, Washington University in Berkeley St. Louis ABSTRACT is almost no practical way to experiment with new network This whitepaper proposes OpenFlow: a way for researchers protocols (e.g., new routing protocols, or alternatives to IP) to run experimental protocols in the networks they use ev- in sufficiently realistic settings (e.g., at scale carrying real ery day. OpenFlow is based on an Ethernet switch, with traffic) to gain the confidence needed for their widespread an internal flow-table, and a standardized interface to add deployment. The result is that most new ideas from the net- and remove flow entries. Our goal is to encourage network- working research community go untried and untested; hence ing vendors to add OpenFlow to their switch products for the commonly held belief that the network infrastructure has “ossified”. deploym