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This document discusses the limitations of existing networks and introduces the concept of software-defined networking (SDN) as a solution. It outlines that current networks have separate control and data planes, making them difficult to program and innovate on. SDN is proposed to separate the control and data planes, making the network programmable through open interfaces and allowing for centralized control. This enables experimentation, flexibility, and easier integration of new applications and services. The key aspects of SDN architecture include the infrastructure, control, and application layers that communicate through the OpenFlow protocol to enable remote programming of forwarding rules in switches.
Sdn ppt
- 1. SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK SUBMITTED BY: PALLAVI CHHIKARA
- 2. LIMITATIONS OF EXISTING NETWORKS • Difficult to perform real world experiments on large scale production networks. • Research stagnation-huge costly equipment to be procured and networks to be setup by each team for research • Networks have remained the same for many years • Rate of innovation in networks is slower as protocols are defined in isolation-lack of high level abstraction. • Closed systems • Hard to collaborate meaningfully due to lack of standard open interfaces. • Vendors starting to open-up but not meaningfully. • Innovation is limited to vendor/vendor partners • Huge barriers for new ideas in networking.
- 3. Limitations of Current Networks Million of lines of source code Billions of gates Many complex functions baked into infrastructure OSPF, BGP, multicast, differentiated services, Traffic Engineering, NAT, firewalls, … Specialized Packet Forwarding Hardware Operating System Featu re Feature Cannot dynamically change according to network conditions
- 4. Idea: An OS for Networks Specialized Packet Forwarding Hardware App App App Specialized Packet Forwarding Hardware App App App Specialized Packet Forwarding Hardware App App App Specialized Packet Forwarding Hardware App App App Specialized Packet Forwarding Hardware Operating System Operating System Operating System Operating System Operating System App App App Network Operating System Control Programs
- 5. SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING • Data Plane: processing and delivery of packets Based on state in routers and endpoints E.g., IP, TCP, Ethernet, etc. • Control Plane: establishing the state in routers Determines how and where packets are forwarded Routing, traffic engineering, firewall state, … • Separate control plane and data plane entities • Have programmable data planes—maintain, control and program data plane from a central entity i.e. control plane software called controller. • An architecture to control not just a networking device but an entire network.
- 6. Global Network View Protocols Protocols Control via open forwarding interface Network Operating System Control Programs Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Control Programs Packet forwarding
- 7. NEED FOR SDN • Facilitate innovation in network. • Layered architecture with standard Open interfaces. • Experiment and research using non-bulky, non-expensive equipment. • More accessibility since software can be easily developed by more vendors. • More flexibility with programmability. • Ease of customization and integration with other software applications • Program a network vs. configure a network
- 8. ARCHITECTURE OF SDN In the SDN architecture, the control and data planes are decoupled, network intelligence and state centralized, and the underlying network infrastructure is abstracted from the applications.
- 9. SDN LAYERS • Infrastructure layer: it is the foundation layer consists of both physical and virtual network devices such as switches and routers. All the network devices will implement OpenFlow protocol to implement traffic forwarding rules. • Control layer: This layer consists of a centralized control plane that is decoupled from the physical infrastructure to provide centralized global view to entire network. The layer will use OpenFlow protocol to communicate with below layer i.e. infrastructure layer. • Application layer: it consists of network services, application and orchestration tools that are used to interact with control layer. It provide an open interface to communicate with other layers in the architecture.
- 10. OPENFLOW PROTOCOL • OPENFLOW is an open API that provides a standard interface for programming the data plane switches. It is a protocol for remotely controlling the forwarding table of a switch or router and is one element of SDN. • It is implemented on Ethernet switches to allow the forwarding plane i.e. data plane to be managed by a controller present on control plain in SDN architecture. OpenFlow based controllers will discover and maintain an inventory of all the links in the network and then will create and store all possible paths in entire network. • OpenFlow protocol can instruct switches and routers to direct the traffic by providing software-based access to flow tables that can be used to quickly change the network layout and traffic flows as per users requirements.
- 11. OpenFlow Data Path (Hardware) Control Path OpenFlow OpenFlow Controller OpenFlow Protocol (SSL/TCP)
- 12. OPENFLOW SWITCH AND CONTROLLER • An OpenFlow Switch contain one or more flow tables that implement packet lookups and forwarding, and an OpenFlow channel to link to an external controller .The switch interconnects with the controller and the controller directs the switch using the OpenFlow protocol. • The controller can delete, add or update flow entries in flow tables existing in the switch, both reactively i.e. in response to packets or proactively, using the OpenFlow protocol. • Controller make this decision based on policies set by administrator or depending on the conditions of the network and the decision it makes is forwarded to flow table entries of all the switches in the network.
- 13. Centralized/Distributed Control Centralized Control OpenFlow Switch OpenFlow Switch OpenFlow Switch Controller Distributed Control OpenFlow Switch OpenFlow Switch OpenFlow Switch Controller Controller • “Onix: A Distributed Control Platform for Large-scale Production Networks”
- 14. CURRENT STATUS of SDN • Google built hardware and software based on the OpenFlow protocol • VMware purchased Nicira for $1.26 billion in 2012 • IBM, HP, NEC, Cisco and Juniper also are offering SDNs that may incorporate OpenFlow, but also have other elements that are specific to that vendor and their gear.
- 15. CONCLUSIONS and FUTURE SCOPE • In future, networking will rely more on software to pick up the pace the innovations in networks. • SDN can transform today’s static networks into more flexible, programmable platforms to provide scalability to support large data centers. It will also provide virtualization that is needed to support automated, dynamic and secure cloud environment. • Mostly implementations of newly proposed systems, frameworks, or applications
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