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A PROTOTYPE PARTICIPATORY NETWORK
PANE is a prototype OpenFlow controller which implements Participatory Networking, an API for end-users, hosts and applications to take part in network management. PANE allows these principals to directly contact the network control-plane to place requests for resources, provide hints about future traffic, or query the state of the network. PANE divides and delegates authority for network management using a hierarchy of "shares," which are also managed by interacting with the PANE server.
/src/ (Haskell source code)
/src/Main.hs (Execution entry point)
/scripts/ (Support scripts for PANE)
/tests/ (Relatively basic traces of client-PANE interaction)
/mn-tests/ (More sophisticated tests run using Mininet)
/coq/ (Correctness proofs developed with Coq proof assistant)
/client-libs/ (Client libraries, see client-libs/README.md for more info)
PANE requires:
- Haskell compiler (tested with GHC 7.0.4)
- Brown's fork of nettle-openflow: https://github.com/brownsys/nettle-openflow
- additional build dependencies from http://hackage.haskell.org as required by cabal
It can be built using the following commands:
$ cabal configure --enable-test $ cabal build
which is equivalent to running make in the top-level directory. After compiling, the provided pane symlink will link to the build output.
PANE has been built successfully on Mac OS X (10.6 and up) and Ubuntu (10.04 and up).
PANE is part of the participatory networking research project at Brown University. While still a research prototype, our primary internet connectivity has been provided by a PANE-controlled OpenFlow network since early February 2012.
PANE is provided under the 3-clause BSD license. See the file LICENSE for more details.