Software Defined Networking: Principles and Practice

Full Day
(9:00 am-5:00 pm)

Thurgood Marshall North

LISA15: Syseng
T3
Nick Feamster, Princeton University
Description: 

This course introduces software defined networking, an emerging paradigm in computer networking that allows a logically centralized software program to control the behavior of an entire network.

Separating a network's control logic from the underlying physical routers and switches that forward traffic allows network operators to write high-level control programs that specify the behavior of an entire network. This is in contrast to conventional networks, where network operators must codify functionality in terms of low-level device configuration.

Logically centralized network control makes it possible for operators to specify more complex tasks that involve integrating many disjoint network functions (e.g., security, resource control, prioritization) into a single control framework. This allows network operators to create more sophisticated policies and makes network configurations easier to configure, manage, troubleshoot, and debug. 

Who should attend: 

Network operators, software developers, graduate students, and other professionals who want to gain hands-on experience with SDN.

Take back to work: 

Knowledge about how to program modern SDN controllers for specific use cases, complete with examples. We'll provide a course virtual machine, so—obviously—that is for keeps!

Topics include: 
  • History and evolution of SDN
  • Control and data plane separation
  • Control Plane and Modern Controllers (Ryu, ONOS)
  • Network Virtualization (Docker)
  • Data Plane (P4)
  • Programming SDNs (Frenetic)
  • Verification and Debugging
  • Use Cases and Looking Forward (SDX, security, etc.)
Additional Materials: 

Our Vagrant installation may be updated before October, but the current version is available at https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/Coursera-SDN

Presentation Type: 
Training