Composing Software Defined Networks

By Christopher Monsanto, Joshua Reich, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, David Walker. Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2013

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A Survey and a Layered Taxonomy of Software-Defined Networking (2014, background): “[71] defines an extension to Frenetic language with a sequential composition operator so that one module acts on the packets produced by another module.”
The beacon openflow controller (2013, background): “• Python: POX [5], Pyretic [17], and RYU [7].”
FloodGuard: A DoS Attack Prevention Extension in Software-Defined Networks (2015, methodology): “Motivated by existing work [23], [11], [16], we attempt to use program analysis techniques to solve the first challenge.”
Software Defined Networking Architecture, Security and Energy Efficiency: A Survey (2017, background): “Abstraction tools like Frentic [47] and pyretic [49] are among the most commonly used ones.”
Optimizing the "one big switch" abstraction in software-defined networks (2013, background): “We, and more broadly the community at large [10, 11, 12], have observed that such high-level policies may be specified in two parts, as shown in Figure 1: • An endpoint policy: Endpoint policies, like access control and load balancing, view the network as one big switch that hides internal topology ”
NetKAT: semantic foundations for networks (2014, background): “Categories and Subject Descriptors D.3.2 [Programming Languages]: Language Classifications—Specialized application languages Keywords Software-defined networking, Frenetic, Network programming languages, Domain-specific languages, Kleene algebra with tests, NetKAT.”
A survey on service function chaining (2016, background): “Recent advancements in the field of SDN and NFV allow ISPs to deploy many network services over the virtualized infrastructures [4, 24, 58, 65, 89].”
SIMPLE-fying middlebox policy enforcement using SDN (2013, background): “Recent work provides abstractions to compose different policy modules [31].”
Packet Transactions: High-Level Programming for Line-Rate Switches (2015, background): “Examples include Frenetic [54], Pyretic [71], and Maple [95].”
Distributed SDN Control: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges (2018, background): “• The second category contains higher level APIs that rely on domain-specific programming languages such as Frenetic [41], Procera [42] and Pyretic [43] as an indirect way for applications to interact with the controller.”
A Survey of Software-Defined Networking: Past, Present, and Future of Programmable Networks (2014, background): “The work in [75] proposes modularization to avoid that rules installed to perform one task do not override other rules.”
Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “example, Pyretic [325] provides network programmers and operators with a high-level abstraction for building modular control applications.”
Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking (2015, methodology): “We proceed to explain these classification categories in detail.”