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WISM 2012: Web Information Systems and Mining pp 686–697Cite as

OF-NEDL: An OpenFlow Networking Experiment Description Language Based on XML

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OpenFlow is a promising future Internet enabling technology and has been widely used in the network research community to evaluate new network protocols, applications, and architectures. However, most of these research activities or experimentations are lack of a uniformed description so can be repeated by other researchers. In this paper, we investigate the general model of an OpenFlow networking experiment and propose a language, OF-NEDL, which aspires to bridge this gap by providing a simple, comprehensive and extensible language for describing OpenFlow networking experiment. OF-NEDL allows the researcher to write a script to control every aspect of an OpenFlow networking experiment, including the hierarchical network topology description, the OpenFlow network devices configuration, the experiment software deployment, the experiment process control, monitoring and output collection. Our preliminary usage scenario shows that it has the ability to describe simple but extensible networking experiment, and we expect to refine considerably its design to make it more practical in the future work.

Foundation Items: The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) ( 2011AA010704)

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  1. Research Institute of Network Technology, China

    Junxue Liang, Zhaowen Lin & Yan Ma

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Telecommunications Software and Multimedia, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 100876, Beijing, China

    Yan Ma

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  2. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, 200090, Shanghai, China

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  3. Department of Computer and Inforamtion Science, University of Macau, Av. Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa, Macau, China

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    Xiangfeng Luo

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Liang, J., Lin, Z., Ma, Y. (2012). OF-NEDL: An OpenFlow Networking Experiment Description Language Based on XML. In: Wang, F.L., Lei, J., Gong, Z., Luo, X. (eds) Web Information Systems and Mining. WISM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33469-6_85

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