ESCAPE: Extensible Service Chain Prototyping Environment Using Mininet, Click, NETCONF and POX

Csoma, A., Sonkoly, B., Csikor, L., Németh, F., Gulyás, A., Tavernier, W. and Sahhaf, S. (2014) ESCAPE: Extensible Service Chain Prototyping Environment Using Mininet, Click, NETCONF and POX. In: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on SIGCOMM, Chicago, IL, USA, 17-22 Aug 2014, pp. 125-126. ISBN 9781450328364 (doi: 10.1145/2619239.2631448)

Abstract

Mininet is a great prototyping tool which combines exist- ing SDN-related software components (e.g., Open vSwitch, OpenFlow controllers, network namespaces, cgroups) into a framework, which can automatically set up and config- ure customized OpenFlow testbeds scaling up to hundreds of nodes. Standing on the shoulders of Mininet, we imple- ment a similar prototyping system called ESCAPE, which can be used to develop and test various components of the service chaining architecture. Our framework incorporates Click for implementing Virtual Network Functions (VNF), NETCONF for managing Click-based VNFs and POX for taking care of traffic steering. We also add our extensible Orchestrator module, which can accommodate mapping al- gorithms from abstract service descriptions to deployed and running service chains.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Keywords: Software defined networking, NETCONF, click, mininet, prototyping, service chain, top.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Csikor, Dr Levente
• Authors: Csoma, A., Sonkoly, B., Csikor, L., Németh, F., Gulyás, A., Tavernier, W., and Sahhaf, S.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: ACM
• ISBN: 9781450328364