NOX: towards an operating system for networks

By Natasha Gude, Teemu Koponen, Justin Pettit, Ben Pfaff, Martín Casado, Nick McKeown, S. Shenker. CCRV, 2008

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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A Survey of Green Networking Research (2010, background): “Effort to bring all the relevant features into operating systems aware of the network and of the energy resources is undergoing [61].”
A Survey of Software-Defined Networking: Past, Present, and Future of Programmable Networks (2014, methodology): “today’s SDN paradigm, Ethane’s identity-based access control would likely be implemented as an application on top of a SDN controller such as NOX [49], Maestro [30], Beacon [1], SNAC [20], Helios [6], etc.”
DevoFlow: scaling flow management for high-performance networks (2011, background): “Our work here derives from a long line of related work that aims to allow operators to specify high-level policies at a logically centralized controller, which are then enforced across the network without the headache of manually crafting switch-by-switch conﬁgurations [10,12,25,26].”
Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture (2012, methodology): “, [14, 33, 24, 23]), and software consolidation is commonly used in data centers.”
Software defined networking: State of the art and research challenges (2014, neutral): “NOX makes it possible to build a scalable network with flexible control because it uses flows as its intermediate granularity [82].”
A survey: Control plane scalability issues and approaches in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) (2017, background): “NOX [9] NOX C++/Python Ran it in their internal network of roughly 30 hosts for over 6 months.”
NICE: Network Intrusion Detection and Countermeasure Selection in Virtual Network Systems (2013, methodology): “Through the cloud internal discovery modules that use DNS, DHCP, LLDP, and flow initiations [27], network controller is able to discover the network connectivity information from OVS and OFS.”
FlowChecker: configuration analysis and verification of federated openflow infrastructures (2010, methodology): “Each controller consists of a user application over NOX running by a single user based on a de.ned slice.”
Deep learning approach for Network Intrusion Detection in Software Defined Networking (2016, methodology): “Various SDN controller software have been proposed by open source organizations or commercial corporations, such as NOX [5], Ryu [6] and Floodlight [7].”
HyperFlow: A Distributed Control Plane for OpenFlow (2010, methodology): “Each controller runs NOX with the HyperFlow application atop, subscribes to the control, data, and its own channel in the publish/subscribe system (depicted with a cloud).”
Frenetic: a network programming language (2011, neutral): “The most wellknown controller platform is NOX [21], though there are several others [1, 9, 26, 40].”
Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking (2015, methodology): “For example, when benchmarking the capabilities for isolating the data plane resources, measurements with one vSDN switch as well as multiple vSDN switches should be conducted.”
Scalable flow-based networking with DIFANE (2010, methodology): “Recent work shows how to support policy-based management using flow switches [1, 2] and centralized controllers [ 4 , 5, 6, 3]. The most closely related work is the Ethane controller that reactively installs flow-level rules based on the first packet of each TCP/UDP flow [3].”
Maestro: A System for Scalable OpenFlow Control (2010, background): “NOX [7], the state-of-the-art OpenFlow controller system, is a centralized and single-threaded system.”
A NICE Way to Test OpenFlow Applications (2012, background): “Many OpenFlow applications are written on the NOX controller platform [5], which offers an OpenFlow”