Programming SDN 1 Problems with programming with POX.

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Programming SDN 1 Problems with programming with POX

Programming SDN App How to specify the functionality in network applications Net apps: routing, access control, monitoring NAT, TE, etc History solution: ad hoc, by configuring individual routers to achieve the objective SDN promises: new solution based on the global network view provided by the SDN controller. How?? This is a brand new domain!!! It does not help that northbound API is not fixed. SDN Controller Northbound interface Openflow

Programming SDN with NOX/POX Event driven programming paradigm Application writer register the events and write the event handlers. API Events: packet_in(switch, port, packet) stats_in (switch, xid, pattern, packets, bytes) flow_removed (switch, pattern, packets, bytes) switch_join(switch) Port_change(switch, port, up) Control and query openflow switches Install(switch, pattern, priority, timeout, actions) uninstall(switch, pattern) Query_stats(switch, pattern)

Programming SDN with POX: a repeater application Network app: when the switch is up, install rules for repeater (port 1 to port 2, port 2 to port1)

Programming SDN with NOX/POX NOX/POX API is very low level, exposing detailed OpenFlow interface with the forwarding elements install and remove OpenFlow rules on a switch Programming with other controllers is similar, although with different features. SDN controllers expose the switch capability, but do not make programming SDN easier.

What is your perfect programming paradigm for SDN? Properties?

Issue with NOX programming: components not composable Monitoring capability Ideal solution: if the program is composable

Issue with NOX programming: components not composable Pattern priority timeout action count p1 output(p2) p2 output(p1) p2,tp_src(80) Rules can interact: p2,tp_src(80) also matches the rule for p2. The counter will be wrong in this case.

Issue with NOX programming

Issues with NOX programming: low level API, very hard to reason Keep track of web traffic except our web server at 10.0.0.9. This level of reasoning involves a lot of details, making the programs cumbersome and error-prone.

Issues of NOX programming: two-tiered architecture Extend the repeater program to monitor traffic by each destination host. Two programs, one on the controller, one on the switch, almost impossible to reason.

Issues of NOX programming: two-tiered architecture What if multiple packets arrive before the rule is installed? Network race conditions.

Programming SDN Directly programming over NOX/POX does not have enough abstraction The global network view by itself does not help It is almost like assembly programming Need higher level language for SDN programming C++, python for Net apps. Program at a higher level and then compile into the lower level API. Need better abstraction at the language level Like all other high level languages, the abstraction needs to be sufficiently expressive for network applications A good abstraction needs to have some properties that other programming language has (software reuse, etc). We need to be able to implement them efficiently over NOS API.