Awesome SDN

An awesome list about Software Defined Networks (SDN)

• Awesome SDN
  • Introduction
  • Network Operating System
  • Install Environment
  • Software Switch
  • Network Virtualization
  • Protocol
  • Controller
  • Simulator/Emulator
  • Language
  • Library
  • Test
  • NFV
  • Overlay Network
  • Router
  • Misc
• Resources
  • Books
  • Paper

Introduction

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to computer networking that allows network administrators to manage network services through abstraction of higher-level functionality. Wiki : Software-Defined Networking

Network Operating System

• PicOS - A SDN OS for white box switches Layer-2/3 feature set with support for OpenFlow, OVSDB, and other protocols.
• Open Network Linux, ONL - A Linux distribution for "bare metal" switches, that is, network forwarding devices built from commodity components.
• OpenSwitch - A linux network oerating system from Dell EMC.
• Cumulus Linux - Cumulus Linux is a powerful open network operating system that allows you to automate, customize and scale using web-scale principles like the world's largest data centers.
• OcNOS - Extensive switching and routing protocol support with advanced capabilities such as MPLS and SDN
• FlexSwitch - The first open source network protocol suite offering complete layer2/layer3 functionality for accelerating development and deployment of whitebox networking gear

Install Environment

• ONIE - ONIE enables a bare metal network switch ecosystem where end users have a choice among different network operating systems.

Software Switch

• OpenvSwtich - Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch.
• Indigo - Indigo is an open source project aimed at enabling support for OpenFlow on physical and hypervisor switches.
• CPqD- An OpenFlow 1.3 compatible user-space software switch implementation
• Lagopus - A high-performance software OpenFlow 1.3 switch.
• LINC-Switch - A pure OpenFlow software switch written in Erlang
• snabbswitch - An open source virtualized Ethernet networking stack.
• ZeroTier - ZeroTier is a software-based managed Ethernet switch for planet Earth.
• PISCES - A Programmable, Protocol-Independent Software Switch.
• BESS - Berkeley Extensible Software Switch, BESS is a modular framework for software switches.

Network Virtualization

• FlowVisor - An OpenFlow controller that acts as a hypervisor/proxy between a switch and multiple controllers. Can slice multiple switches in parallel, effectively slicing a network.
• OpenVirtex - A network hypervisor that can create multiple virtual and programmable networks on top of a single physical infrastructure.

Protocol

• OpenFlow - A communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network.
• OF-Config - OpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol
• OVSDB - A communication protocol which used to manage the OpenvSwitch database.
• NETCONF
• OpFlex
• Path Computation Element Protocol, PCEP
• Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, XMPP

Controller

• NOX - An open source development platform for C++-based software-defined networking (SDN) control applications.
• NodeFlow - An OpenFlow Controller Node Style.
• ONOS - Open Network Operating System.
• OpenDaylight - OpenDaylight Platform
• Ryu - A component-based software defined networking framework.
• Floodlight - A java-based OpenFlow controller.
• Vyatta - The first commercial Controller built directly from OpenDaylight.
• OpenContrail - A SDN project that utilizes SDN & NFV and provides all the necessary components for network virtualization.
• IRIS - A Resursive SDN Openflow Controller created by SDN Research Section, ETRI.
• Open MUL - A lightweight SDN/Openflow controller written almost entirely in C from scratch.
• OESS - The Open Exchange Software Suite to configure and control OpenFlow Enabled switches.
• Beehive Network Controller - A distributed SDN controller built on top of Beehive. It supports OpenFlow but can be easily extended for other southbound protocols.
• Ravel - A software-defined networking (SDN) controller that uses a standard SQL database to represent the network.
• Trema - A full-stack, easy-to-use framework for developing OpenFlow controllers in Ruby and C.

Simulator/Emulator

• Mininet - An Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop (or other PC)
• OpenNet - A simulator for software-defined wireless local area network
• EstiNet - A world-renowned software tool for network planning
• ns-3 - A discrete-event network simulator that supports OpenFlow environment.
• Containernet - Mininet fork that allows to use Docker containers as hosts in emulated networks

Language

• P4 - A declarative language for expressing how packets are processed by the pipeline of a network forwarding element such as a switch, NIC, router or network function appliance.
• POF - Protocol Oblivious Forwarding
• Frenetic - The Frenetic Programming Language and Runtime System
• Pyretic - Pyretic is one member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages.
• NEMO - A domain specific language (DSL) based on abstraction of network models and conclusion of operation patterns.

Library

• loxigen - LoxiGen is a tool that generates OpenFlow protocol libraries for a number of languages.
• openfaucet - openfaucet is a pure Python implementation of the OpenFlow 1.0.0 protocol, based on Twisted.
• oflib-node - Oflib-node is an OpenFlow protocol library for Node. It converts between OpenFlow wire protocol messages and Javascript objects.
• OpenFlowJ - A Java implementation of low-level OpenFlow packet marshalling/unmarshalling and IO operations.
• nettle - A Haskell library for working with the OpenFlow protocol.
• OCaml OpenFlow - A serialization and protocol library for OpenFlow.
• Scapy - Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program.

Test

• oftest - OpenFlow Testing Framework
• STS - SDN Troubleshooting System, simulates network devices, allowing programmatically test cases generation.
• nice-of - A tool to test OpenFlow controller application for the NOX controller platform.
• OpenSDNCore - Virtualisation Testbed for NFV/SDN Environment.
• Cbenech - Benchmarking tool for controllers

NFV

• OPNFV - Accelerating NFV's evolution through an integrated, open platform.

Overlay Network

• VXLAN - Virtual Extensible LAN
• NVGRE - NVGRE-Network-Virtualization-using-Generic-Routing-Encapsulation

Router

• FreeRouter - Python-based vRouter
• Bird
• Quagga
• FRRouting - An IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms which includes protocol daemons for BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, and RIP.
• BGPFeeder
• bgp4r
• gobgp
• yabgp

Misc

• Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter, CORD - Reference Implementation of a Service Delivery Platform that Provides Cloud Economies and Agility.
• OPEN-Orchestrator Project, Open-O
• Open Source MANO Community, OSM
• Enhanced Controller Orchestration Management Policy, ECOMP - Operations management framework.
• Open Network Automation Platform, ONAP - Alignment of the two projects creates a harmonized and comprehensive framework for real-time, policy-driven software automation of virtual network functions that will enable software, network, IT and cloud providers and developers to rapidly create new services.

Resources

Books

• SDN: Software Defined Networks: An Authoritative Review of Network Programmability Technologies
• 圖解OpenFlow
• 重构网络-SDN架构与实现
• 深度解析SDN: 利益、战略、技术、实践
• SDN核心技术剖析和实战指南
• 软件定义网络:SDN与OpenFlow解析
• Network Algorithmics：An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices
• Network Programmability and Automation Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer
• SDN网络指南(OpenSource Book in Chinese by Pengfei Ni)

Paper

• SDN A Comprehensive Survey
• A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking
• High Performance Datacenter Networks: Architectures, Algorithms, and Opportunities