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Tutorial 1: SDN for Engineers
part of the the Open Networking Summit
Santa Clara Marrio]
April 16, 2012
Brandon Heller, Rob Sherwood, David

Erickson, Hideyuki Shimonishi, Srini
Seetharaman, Murphy McCauley
only possible help from all the people
listed on the next few pages
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Ge#ng Started


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Welcome
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Who’s in this room?
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>= 3:
•  HP >= 19
•  Cisco >= 15
•  Juniper >= 7
•  Huawei >= 6
•  Brocade >= 4
•  ZAO >= 3
•  Google >= 3
Plus >= 60 companies w/2 or less..
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•  Engineer
•  Senior Engineer
•  Principal Systems Engineer
•  Dis\nguished Engineer
•  Senior Dis\nguished Engineer
•  Senior Technical Marke\ng Engineer
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•  Student
•  Graduate Student
•  PhD / Doctor
•  Senior Research Scien\st
•  Professor
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•  CTO
•  VP
•  Founder
•  Solu\ons Architect
•  Cloud Architect
•  Chief Tech Expert
•  Chief
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Goals
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Overall Goal:
think cri\cally
about SDN
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Goals of this Tutorial
•  By the end, everyone should know:
–  Knowledge about SDN/OpenFlow
•  what these are
•  how they relate
•  what’s available now
•  where it’s going
•  how it’s used
–  SDN and You
•  how you can use it
•  how you can build on top of what’s available
•  How you can build something completely new
•  Have fun
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Agenda
Time DescripEon
9:00-‐10:00 OpenFlow/SDN Introduc\on
10:00-‐10:30 The SDN Stack, Part 1: Switches &
Controllers
10:45-‐12:00 The SDN Stack, Part 2: Virtualiza\on & SDN
Applica\ons
12:00-‐1:00 Lunch
1:00-‐3:00 Controllers + Q&A
3:15-‐4:15 Hands-‐On
4:20-‐5:00 SDN Deployment Experiences and Wrap-‐up
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SDN +
OpenFlow
History 14
Why OpenFlow?
[Historical
mo\va\ons,
for researchers]
15
The Networking Industry (2007)
Rou\ng, management, mobility management,
access control, VPNs, …
Feature Feature
Million of lines 5400 RFCs Barrier to entry
of source code
Opera\ng
System
Specialized Packet Billions of gates Complex Power Hungry

Forwarding Hardware
Many complex func\ons baked into the infrastructure

OSPF, BGP, mul.cast, differen.ated services,
Traffic Engineering, NAT, firewalls, MPLS, redundant layers, …
An industry with a “mainframe-‐mentality”
Li]le ability for non-‐telco network operators to get what they want
Func\onality defined by standards, put in hardware, deployed on nodes
16
Ossifica\on
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/
17
Research Stagna\on (circa 2007):
Faster networks but not beFer networks
•  Lots of deployed innova\on in other areas
–  OS: filesystems, schedulers, virtualiza\on
–  DS: DHTs, CDNs, MapReduce
–  Compilers: JITs, new language paradigms
•  Networks are largely the same as years ago
–  Ethernet, IP, WiFi
•  Rate of change of the network seems slower in
comparison
–  Need be]er tools and abstrac\ons to demonstrate
and deploy
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Another problem:
Closed Systems (Vendor Hardware)
•  Can’t extend
•  Stuck with interfaces (CLI, SNMP, etc)
•  Hard to meaningfully extend

•  Hard to meaningfully collaborate
•  Vendors star\ng to open up, but not usefully
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Open Systems
Performance Scale Real User Complexity Open
Fidelity Traffic?
Simula\on medium medium no medium yes
Emula\on medium low no medium yes
Soyware poor low yes medium yes
Switches
NetFPGA high low yes high yes
Network high medium yes high yes
Processors
Vendor high high yes low no
Switches
gap in the tool space

none have all the desired a]ributes!
20
Ethane, a precursor to OpenFlow
Centralized, reac\ve, per-‐flow control
Controller
Flow Switch Flow Switch
Flow Switch
Host B
Host A
Flow Switch
See Ethane SIGCOMM 2007 paper for details 21

Ethane’s dumb, simple
switches might be more
broadly useful…
22
OpenFlow: a pragma\c compromise
+ Speed, scale, fidelity of vendor hardware
+ Flexibility and control of soyware and simula\on
+ Vendors don’t need to expose implementa\on
+ Leverages hardware inside most switches today (ACL
tables)
-‐  Least-‐common-‐denominator interface may prevent
using all hardware features
-‐  Limited table sizes
-‐  Switches not designed for this
-‐  New failure modes to understand
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How does
OpenFlow work?
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Ethernet Switch
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OpenFlow Protocol (SSL/TCP)
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OpenFlow Example 
Controller
PC
Soyware
Layer
OpenFlow Client
Flow Table
MAC MAC IP IP TCP TCP
Ac\on
src dst Src Dst sport dport
Hardware
* * * 5.6.7.8 * * port 1
Layer
port 1 port 2 port 3 port 4
5.6.7.8 1.2.3.4 28
OpenFlow Basics
Flow Table Entries
Rule Ac\on Stats
Packet + byte counters

1.  Forward packet to zero or more ports
2.  Encapsulate and forward to controller
3.  Send to normal processing pipeline
4.  Modify Fields
5.  Any extensions you add!
Switch VLAN VLAN MAC MAC Eth IP IP IP IP L4 L4

Port ID pcp src dst type Src Dst ToS Prot sport dport
+ mask what fields to match

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Examples
Switching
Switch MAC MAC Eth VLAN IP IP IP TCP TCP

Ac\on
Port src dst type ID Src Dst Prot sport dport
* * 00:1f:.. * * * * * * * port6
Flow Switching

Ac\on
port3 00:20.. 00:1f.. 0800 vlan1 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8 4 17264 80 port6
Firewall

Ac\on
* * * * * * * * * 22 drop
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Examples
Rou\ng

Ac\on
* * * * * * 5.6.7.8 * * * port6
VLAN Switching

Ac\on
port6,
* * 00:1f.. * vlan1 * * * * * port7,
port9
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OpenFlow is not
enough.
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OpenFlow is not enough…
•  Adds the ability to modify, experiment…
•  But s\ll harder than it should be to add
features to a network
•  Effec\vely assembly programming or an ISA
[OpenFlow is just a forwarding

table management protocol]
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It’s hard to add a feature to a
network
•  It’s not just that we lack access to line-‐rate
forwarding that we can control
•  Fully distributed algorithms are hard, especially when
defined at the protocol level
•  Your protocol must implement its own mechanisms
•  Must work on constrained and heterogeneous
resources
This is where Software-Defined

Networking comes in: need a control
plane abstraction too 34
From
OpenFlow
to SDN 35
36
SDN is actually much older than ‘09
•  Key ideas present in some form in 4D, RCP,
Sane, Ethane, …
37
What is SDN, opt. 1
“The McKeown View”:
Refactoring
Func\onality
38
Define SDN by its
placement of
func\onality.
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Today
Closed Boxes, Fully Distributed Protocols
Closed
App App App
Opera\ng
System
Ap Ap Ap
p p p
Specialized Packet
Forwarding Hardware Opera\ng
System
App App App Specialized Packet

Forwarding Hardware
Opera\ng
System
App App App
Specialized Packet
System
Specialized Packet
App App App
Forwarding Hardware
Opera\ng
System
Specialized Packet
Forwarding Hardware
40
“Soyware Defined Networking” approach
to open it
App App App
Network Opera\ng System
App App App
Opera\ng
System
Ap Ap Ap
p p p
Specialized Packet
System
App App App Specialized Packet

Forwarding Hardware
Opera\ng
System
App App App
Specialized Packet
System
Specialized Packet
App App App
Forwarding Hardware
Opera\ng
System
Specialized Packet
Forwarding Hardware
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The “Soyware-‐defined Network”
2. At least one good opera\ng system
3. Well-‐defined open API Extensible, possibly open-‐source
App App App
Network Opera\ng System
1. Open interface to hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding
Hardware Simple Packet
Forwarding
Hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding
Hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding
Hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding
Hardware 42
Isolated “slices” Many opera\ng systems, or
Many versions
App App App App App App App App
Network Network Network Network

Opera\ng Opera\ng Opera\ng Opera\ng
System 1 System 2 System 3 System 4
Open interface to hardware
Virtualiza\on or “Slicing” Layer

Open interface to hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding Hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding Hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding Hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding Hardware
Simple Packet
Forwarding Hardware 43
What is SDN, opt. 2
“The Shenker View”:
Redefining
Abstrac\ons
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Define SDN by the
abstrac\ons it provides
to soyware (and people
wri\ng it).
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“The Shenker View”
•  Sco] Shenker has a killer presenta\on
–  (Keynote at last ONS)
–  You should watch this
–  h]p://www.slideshare.net/mar\n_casado/sdn-‐
abstrac\ons
–  The Future of Networking, and the Past of
Protocols
•  Many bullet points on next few slides are from

this talk
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“The Shenker View”: the gist
•  Network control planes need abstrac\ons
–  Abstrac\ons solve architectural problems and
enable evolvability
–  Today’s layers (L2, L3, ..) are good abstrac\ons but
terrible for control interfaces
•  Networks work because we can master
complexity
–  but what we should be doing is extrac\ng
simplicity, with the right abstrac\ons
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Programming Made the Transi\on
•  Machine Languages: no abstrac\ons
•  Higher-‐level languages, OS + other abstrac\on
–  files, virtual memory, data structures, …
•  Modern languages: even more abstrac\ons
–  objects, garbage collec\on, threads, locks, …
Abstrac\ons simplify programming: they make it

easier to write, maintain, and reason about
programs.
Could networking follow this same path? 48
Forwarding Abstrac\on
•  Forwarding behavior specified by a control
program.
•  Possibili\es: x86, MPLS, OpenFlow
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State Distribu\on Abstrac\on
•  Control program should not have to handle
distributed-‐state details
•  Proposed abstrac\on: global network view
•  Control program operates on network view
–  Input: global network view (graph)
–  Output: configura\on of each network device
•  Network OS provides network view
Short version: programs operate
on graphs 50
Specifica\on Abstrac\on
•  Give control program abstract view of network
•  Provide enough detail to specify goals, but not
to implement them
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What is SDN, opt 3

My view:
Opening Up
Design Axes
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Define SDN not by what
it looks like or how we
think about it, but the
flexibility it provides.
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SDN opens up
implementa\on
design axes.
54
An SDN is any network
that gives us the
flexibility to choose
between points on the
following design axes.
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Centralized vs Distributed Control
Centralized Control Distributed Control

Controller Controller
OpenFlow OpenFlow
Switch Switch
Controller
OpenFlow OpenFlow Controller

Switch Switch
OpenFlow OpenFlow
Switch Switch
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Microflow vs. Aggregated
Microflow Aggregated
•  Every flow is individually •  One flow entry covers large

set up by controller groups of flows
•  Exact-‐match flow entries •  Wildcard flow entries
•  Flow table contains one •  Flow table contains one
entry per flow entry per category of flows
•  Good for fine grain •  Good for large number of

control, policy, and flows, e.g. backbone
monitoring, e.g. campus
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Reac\ve vs. Proac\ve (pre-‐populated)
Reac\ve Proac\ve
•  First packet of flow •  Controller pre-‐populates

triggers controller to insert flow table in switch
flow entries •  Zero addi\onal flow setup
•  Efficient use of flow table \me
•  Every flow incurs small •  Loss of control connec\on
addi\onal flow setup \me does not disrupt traffic
•  If control connec\on lost, •  Essen\ally requires
switch has limited u\lity aggregated (wildcard) rules
•  Extremely simple fault
recovery
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Virtual vs Physical
Virtual Physical
•  Assumes configurable •  No assump\on of soyware

switching within a host: in changes; unmodified end
the OS or hypervisor hosts
•  Soyware! Memory, •  Greater control over
processing, arbitrary expensive forwarding
modifica\ons resources
•  Massive flow rates
•  Limited to the hardware
below
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Fully Consistent vs Eventually
Consistent
Fully Consistent Eventually Consistent
•  Certainty about state •  Uncertainty about state

•  Consistent state is harder now, but eventually
to scale converges
•  Easier to reason about •  Probabilis\c state is easier
state and its transi\ons to scale
•  May eliminate route flaps •  Introduces the possibility of
long-‐lived route flaps and
unstable control systems
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Here’s a picture
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These axes, today (BGP):
Centralized Distributed
Microflow Aggregated
Reactive Proactive
Virtual Physical
Many choices arise from assuming

decentralized administration…
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These axes, for Ethane
Reactive Proactive
Virtual Physical
Many choices arise from assuming

centralized administration…
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These axes, for Hedera:
Reactive Proactive
Virtual Physical
Hedera controls a data center network.

See NSDI ‘10 paper for more details.
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Your SDN network or applica\on?
Reactive Proactive
Virtual Physical
Hybrid approaches often have desirable

properties; can use these now.
65
Example applica\ons and their
places on the scales
66
High-‐order bit of SDN:
adds flexibility to
control-‐plane
implementa\on
choices
67
SDN examples using OpenFlow
Many applica\ons benefit from flexibility
Stanford Demos Others

•  Wireless mobility •  Removing spanning tree
•  VM mobility/migra\on •  Network visualiza\on
•  Network virtualiza\on •  Network debugging
•  Power management •  Packet-‐circuit convergence
•  Hardware •  Home networks
•  Load balancing •  Flexible access control
•  Traffic Engineering •  Scale-‐out routers
•  Scale-‐out data centers
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What SDN really means is up in the air.
Here’s a good defini\on, though:
Soyware Defined Networking (SDN) is a

refactoring of the rela\onship between
network devices and the soyware that
controls them.
[Paraphrased from the HotSDN ‘12 Solicita\on]
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The SDN
Stack
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The SDN Stack
oyrace oflops
Monitoring/
openseer
debugging tools
ENVI (GUI) LAVI n-‐Cas\ng … Applica\ons
NOX Beacon Trema Maestro … Controller
FlowVisor Slicing
FlowVisor
Console Soyware
Commercial Switches
Soyware Broadcom
NetFPGA
HP, NEC, Pronto, Ref. Switch Ref. Switch OpenFlow
Juniper.. and many
more OpenWRT
PCEngine
Open vSwitch
Switches
WiFi AP
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Switches
(all OpenFlow 1.0
for now)
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Current SDN hardware (as of ~2010)
Juniper MX-series NEC IP8800 WiMax (NEC)
HP Procurve 5400 Netgear 7324 PC Engines
Pronto 3240/3290 Ciena Coredirector
Ask your vendors
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Commercial Switches
Vendor Models Virtualize? Notes Pic
HP 5400zl, 1 OF instance -‐ LACP, VLAN and STP processing before

ProCurve 6600, + per VLAN OpenFlow
-‐ Wildcard rules or non-‐IP pkts processed
in s/w
-‐ Header rewri\ng in s/w
-‐ CPU protects mgmt during loop
NEC IP8800, 1 OF instance -‐ OpenFlow takes precedence
+ per VLAN -‐ Most ac\ons processed in hardware
-‐ MAC header rewri\ng in h/w
Pronto/ 3290, 1 OF instance -‐ No legacy protocols (like VLAN and STP)
Pica8 3780, per switch -‐ Most ac\ons processed in hardware
3920, + -‐ MAC header rewri\ng in h/w
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Open Switches
Name Lang PlaQorm(s) License Original Notes
Author
OpenFlow C Linux OpenFlow Stanford/ not designed for extensibility
Reference License Nicira
Open C/ Linux/BSD? Apache 2.0 Ben Pfaff/ In Linux kernel 3.3+

vSwitch Python Nicira
Indigo C/Lua Linux-‐based GPL v2 Dan Talayco/ Bare OpenFlow switch
Hardware BigSwitch
Switches
Xorplus ? Linux-‐based ? Pica8 Support

Hardware
Switches
75
Ignore these slides.
Ask your vendor for
the latest.
76
What you cannot do with OpenFlow v1.0
•  Non-‐flow-‐based (per-‐packet) networking
–  ex. Per-‐packet next-‐hop selec\on (in wireless mesh)
–  yes, this is a fundamental limita\on
–  BUT OpenFlow can provide the plumbing to connect these
systems
•  Use all tables on switch chips
–  yes, a major limita\on (cross-‐product issue)
–  BUT OF version 1.1 exposes these, providing a way around
the cross-‐product state explosion
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What can cannot do with OpenFlow v1.0 (2)
•  New forwarding primi\ves
–  BUT provides a nice way to integrate them through
extensions
•  New packet formats/field defini\ons
–  BUT extensible matches are coming in v1.2/1.3+
•  Op\cal Circuits
–  BUT efforts underway to apply OpenFlow model to circuits
•  Low-‐setup-‐\me individual flows
–  BUT can push down flows proac\vely to avoid delays
Where it’s going
•  OF v1.0: released end of 2009: “Into the Campus”
•  OF v1.1: released March 1 2011: “Into the WAN”
–  mul\ple tables: leverage addi\onal tables
–  tags and tunnels: MPLS, VLAN, virtual ports
–  mul\path forwarding: ECMP, groups
•  OF v1.2: approved Dec 8 2011: “Extensible Protocol”
–  extensible match
–  extensible ac\ons
–  IPv6
–  mul\ple controllers
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Controllers
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Open Controllers
Author
OpenFlow C Linux OpenFlow Stanford/ not designed for extensibility
Reference License Nicira
NOX Python, Linux GPL Nicira ac\vely developed

C++
Beacon Java Win, Mac, GPL (core), David run\me modular, web UI
Linux, FOSS Licenses Erickson framework, regression test
Android for your code (Stanford) framework
Maestro Java Win, Mac, LGPL Zheng Cai

Linux (Rice)
Trema Ruby, C Linux GPL NEC includes emulator, regression test

framework
RouteFlow ? Linux Apache CPqD (Brazil) virtual IP rou\ng as a service
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Open Controllers (2)
Author
OpenFaucet Python Library
Mirage OCaml
POX Python Any
Floodlight Java Any BigSwitch,

based on
Beacon
Too many to easily list of keep track of…
82
Growing list….
•  Mar\n Casado recently added a list:
•  h]p://yuba.stanford.edu/~casado/of-‐sw.html
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Related Research
•  DIFANE
–  Rule par\\oning for controller-‐less flow inser\on
•  UCSD Fat Tree Series: Scalable Commodity Data
Center, PortLand, Hedera
–  Scale-‐out data centers that use OpenFlow
•  Tesseract
–  Centralized WAN in the 4D Architecture
•  ONIX
–  Fault-‐tolerant controller plaGorm from Nicira, Google, NEC
•  DevoFlow
–  Prac\cal scalability limits to OpenFlow and modifica\ons
to get around them 84
Related Research
•  Frene\c/Ne]le
–  Func\onal Reac\ve Programming for more composable,
reusable controller code
•  Resonance
–  State-‐machine-‐based network control
•  Consistency Primi\ves
–  Per-‐packet or per-‐flow rou\ng guarantees to
simplify network versioning
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Up Next:
•  Come back at 10:45 for:
“The SDN Stack Part 2: Virtualiza\on and SDN
Applica\ons”
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Virtualiza\on
and SDN
Applica\ons
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Virtualiza\on
Rob Sherwood,
(BigSwitch)
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Current Trials
•  68 trials/deployments spanning 13 countries
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Internet2 OpenFlow deployment ini\a\ve.
35+ 100G POPs, na\onwide.
Applica\ons of SDN
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OpenFlow Demonstra\on Overview
Topic Demo
Network
Virtualization
FlowVisor
Hardware
Prototyping
OpenPipes
Load Balancing PlugNServe
Energy Savings ElasticTree
Mobility MobileVMs
Traffic Engineering Aggregation
Wireless Video OpenRoads
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Demo Infrastructure with Slicing
WiMax
WiFi APs
OpenFlow
switches
Flows Packet
processors
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FlowVisor Creates Virtual Networks
OpenPipes OpenRoads PlugNServe
Demo Demo Load-‐balancer
Each demo presented here

runs in an isolated slice of
Stanford’s produc\on
OpenFlow
network. Protocol
OpenFlow
OpenFlow Protocol
Switch FlowVisor OpenPipes
Policy
FlowVisor slices OpenFlow

OpenFlow OpenFlow networks, crea\ng mul\ple
Switch Switch isolated and programmable
logical networks on the
same physical topology.
95
• Plumbing with OpenFlow to
OpenPipes build hardware systems
Partition hardware designs

Mix resources
Test

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Plug-‐n-‐Serve:
Load-‐Balancing Web Traffic using OpenFlow
Goal: Load-‐balancing requests in unstructured networks
What we are showing

  OpenFlow-‐based distributed load-‐balancer
 Smart load-‐balancing based on network and server
load
 Allows incremental deployment of addi\onal
resources
OpenFlow means…
  Complete control over traffic within the
network
 Visibility into network condi\ons
 Ability to use exis\ng commodity hardware
This demo runs on top of the FlowVisor, sharing the same physical network with other experiments and produc.on traffic. 97
Dynamic Flow Aggrega\on on an OpenFlow Network
Scope
• Different Networks want different flow granularity (ISP, Backbone,…)
•  Switch resources are limited (flow entries, memory)
•  Network management is hard
•  Current Solu\ons : MPLS, IP aggrega\on
How OpenFlow Helps?
• Dynamically define flow granularity by wildcarding arbitrary header fields
• Granularity is on the switch flow entries, no packet rewrite or encapsula\on
• Create meaningful bundles and manage them using your own soyware (reroute, monitor)
Higher Flexibility, Be[er Control, Easier Management, ExperimentaEon
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Elas\cTree:
Reducing Energy in Data Center Networks
•  Shuts off links and switches to reduce data center power
•  Choice of op\mizers to balance power, fault tolerance, and BW
•  OpenFlow provides network routes and port sta\s\cs
•  The demo:
•  Hardware-‐based 16-‐node
Fat Tree
•  Your choice of traffic
pa]ern, bandwidth,
op\miza\on strategy
•  Graph shows live power
and latency varia\on
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demo credits: Brandon Heller, Srini Seetharaman, Yiannis Yiakoumis, David Underhill
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Intercon\nental VM Migra\on
Moved a VM from Stanford to Japan without changing its IP.
101
VM hosted a video game server with ac\ve network connec\ons.
openflow.org/videos
102
Play Videos:
Wireless Handover
Load balancing
103
Times are changing
•  No longer “what can I now do that I couldn’t
do before”
•  Clouds
•  Cost efficiency
•  Manageability
•  Programmability
104
Where SDN make sense (and doesn’t)
[from Martin Casado’s blog: http://networkheresy.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/is-
openflowsdn-good-at-forwarding/]
So the ques\on really boils down to whether the algorithm

needed to compute the datapath state is easily distributed ...
if the state management algorithm has any of the following
proper\es it probably isn’t, and is therefore a poten\al
candidate for SDN.
•  It is not amenable to being split up into many smaller pieces
(as opposed to fewer, larger instances). The limi\ng property
in these cases is oyen excessive communica\on overhead
between the control nodes.
•  It is not amenable to running on heterogeneous compute
environments. For example those with varying processor
speeds and available memory.
105
Where SDN make sense (and doesn’t)
[from Martin Casado’s blog: http://networkheresy.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/is-
openflowsdn-good-at-forwarding/]
•  It is not amenable to rela\vely long RTT’s for

communica\on between distributed instances. In the
purely distributed case, the upper bound for
communica\ng between any two nodes scales
linearly with the longest loop free path.
•  The algorithm requires sophis\cated distributed
coordina\on between instances (for example
distributed locking or leader elec\on)
106
SDN stack
•  Monitoring/Debugging Tools
•  Applica\ons
•  Controllers
•  Virtualiza\on
•  Switches
•  Topology
107
Up Next:
1:00 -‐ 3:00pm Controllers:
•  NOX/POX (Murphy)
•  Trema (Hideyuki)
•  Beacon (David)
•  Floodlight (Rob)
•  RouteFlow (video)
•  + more Q&A
108
Q & A
109
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Break
•  Come back at 1:00 for Controllers
111
Controllers
112
POX:
Murphy McCauley
Beacon:
David Erickson
Trema:
Hideyuki Shimonishi
Floodlight:
Rob Sherwood
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VM Setup/
Overview
114
[Hands-‐on Tutorial]
Overview
115
TutorialFlow
116
Stuff you’ll use
•  Ref Controller / NOX / Beacon / Trema /
Floodlight
•  Open vSwitch
•  Mininet
•  iperf
•  tcpdump
•  Wireshark
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Tutorial Setup
Controller
c0 port6633
loopback
(127.0.0.1:6633)
OpenFlow Tutorial
3hosts-‐1switch
topology loopback
s1 (127.0.0.1:6634) dpctl
OpenFlow Switch (user space
process)
s1-‐eth0 s1-‐eth1 s1-‐eth2
h1-‐eth0 h3-‐eth0 h4-‐eth0
h2 h3 h4
10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.4
virtual hosts 118

Pick a controller!
119
POX:
Murphy McCauley
Beacon:
David Erickson
Trema:
Hideyuki Shimonishi
Floodlight:
Rob Sherwood
120
Hands-‐on Tutorial
Instruc\ons at:
www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/OpenFlow_Tutorial
121
Q&A
122
Deployment
Experiences
123
Deployment:
Srini Seetharaman
124
Wrap-‐Up
125
OpenFlow/SDN Tutorial A[endees
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1/1/08 1/1/09 1/1/10 1/1/11 1/1/12
A]endees Expon.(A]endees)
126
Growing Community
Vendors and start-ups Providers and business-unit
More... More...
Note: Level of interest varies

127
Closing Thoughts
•  SDN & OpenFlow
•  Open Source Ecosystem
•  SDN Switches and Controllers are available,
used, and improving: open & closed
•  These are the early stages for SDN
128
Get involved!
•  Ask and answer ques\ons on mailing lists:
–  openflow-‐discuss
–  openvswitch-‐{discuss/dev}
–  ONF forums
•  Share via wiki, github, etc.
•  Submit bug-‐reports and/or patches to OF
reference implementa\on and Open vSwitch
•  Release open-‐source applica\ons
•  Write a new controller!
129
This tutorial wouldn’t be possible without:
•  Speakers
–  Rob Sherwood
–  David Erickson
–  HIDEyuki Shimonishi
–  Murphy McCauley
–  Srini Seetharaman
130
ACKs
(acknowledgements)
131
•  OpenFlow Experts
–  Tatsuya Yabe
–  Nikhil Handigol
–  TY Huang
–  James Hongyi Zeng
–  Bob Lantz
–  Masahiko Takahashi
–  Ali Al-‐Shabibi
–  Ali Yahya
–  Glen Gibb
132
•  Past slides from:
–  Nick McKeown
–  Rob Sherwood
–  Guru Parulkar
–  Srini Seetharaman
–  Yiannis Yiakoumis
–  Guido Appenzeller
–  Masa Kobayashi
–  Sco] Shenker
–  others
133
•  Behind-‐the-‐scenes organizers:
–  Flora Freitas
–  Asena Gencel
–  Guru Parulkar
134
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Brandon Heller, Rob Sherwood, David

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Specialized Packet Billions of gates Complex Power Hungry

Many complex func\ons baked into the infrastructure

• Hard to meaningfully extend

gap in the tool space

Flow Switch Flow Switch

See Ethane SIGCOMM 2007 paper for details 21

port 1 port 2 port 3 port 4

Rule Ac\on Stats

Packet + byte counters

Switch VLAN VLAN MAC MAC Eth IP IP IP IP L4 L4

+ mask what ﬁelds to match

Switch MAC MAC Eth VLAN IP IP IP TCP TCP

Switch MAC MAC Eth VLAN IP IP IP TCP TCP

Switch MAC MAC Eth VLAN IP IP IP TCP TCP

Switch MAC MAC Eth VLAN IP IP IP TCP TCP

Switch MAC MAC Eth VLAN IP IP IP TCP TCP

[OpenFlow is just a forwarding

This is where Software-Defined

“The McKeown View”:

App App App Specialized Packet

Network Opera\ng System

App App App

App App App Specialized Packet

Network Opera\ng System

1. Open interface to hardware

App App App App App App App App

Network Network Network Network

Open interface to hardware

Virtualiza\on or “Slicing” Layer

“The Shenker View”:

• Many bullet points on next few slides are from

Abstrac\ons simplify programming: they make it

Centralized Control Distributed Control

OpenFlow OpenFlow Controller

• Every ﬂow is individually • One ﬂow entry covers large

• Good for ﬁne grain • Good for large number of

• First packet of ﬂow • Controller pre-­‐populates

• Assumes conﬁgurable • No assump\on of soyware

Fully Consistent Eventually Consistent

• Certainty about state • Uncertainty about state

Fully Consistent Eventually Consistent

Many choices arise from assuming

Fully Consistent Eventually Consistent

Many choices arise from assuming

Fully Consistent Eventually Consistent

Hedera controls a data center network.

Fully Consistent Eventually Consistent

Hybrid approaches often have desirable

Stanford Demos Others

Here’s a good deﬁni\on, though:

Soyware Deﬁned Networking (SDN) is a

[Paraphrased from the HotSDN ‘12 Solicita\on]

ENVI (GUI) LAVI n-­‐Cas\ng … Applica\ons

NOX Beacon Trema Maestro … Controller

HP Procurve 5400 Netgear 7324 PC Engines

•  (2) Unzip OpenFlowTutorial-‐101311.zip

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•  You should NOT need to download any large

•  (2) Unzip OpenFlowTutorial-‐101311.zip

•  (3) Point browser to instruc\ons:

•  You should NOT need to download any large

•  Hard to meaningfully extend

•  Many bullet points on next few slides are from

•  Every ﬂow is individually •  One ﬂow entry covers large

•  Good for ﬁne grain •  Good for large number of

•  First packet of ﬂow •  Controller pre-‐populates

•  Assumes conﬁgurable •  No assump\on of soyware

•  Certainty about state •  Uncertainty about state

ENVI (GUI) LAVI n-‐Cas\ng … Applica\ons

HP 5400zl, 1 OF instance -‐ LACP, VLAN and STP processing before

Xorplus ? Linux-‐based ? Pica8 Support

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Goal: Load-‐balancing requests in unstructured networks

•  It is not amenable to rela\vely long RTT’s for

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h1-‐eth0 h3-‐eth0 h4-‐eth0

•  These are the early stages for SDN