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Automatic Custom Generation of Topologies and Configuration of Routing protocols in SDN

Published: 22 August 2017 Publication History

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Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) has been an area of interest among researchers from academia and industry. SDNs, however, also introduce new challenges, for example researchers work under strict time constraints and need to conduct frequent experiments to verify their ideas on scalable simulation of real-life topologies. The challenge is two-fold: first, the researchers need to manually generate the topologies and second, manually configure the devices in the generated topologies to enable routing protocols. We demonstrate two novel tools, namely, Topology Generator and Enhanced Automatic Configuration RouteFlow (EACRF), which automatically generate the custom scalable topologies at the SDN data plane and configure routing protocols like BGP and OSPF, at the SDN control plane, in a seamless fashion in quick time. EACRF is an enhancement of RouteFlow which can be used in con/junction with Topology Generator or independently.

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      SIGCOMM Posters and Demos '17: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Posters and Demos
      August 2017
      158 pages
      ISBN:9781450350570
      DOI:10.1145/3123878
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      1. Mininet
      2. OpenFlow
      3. Quagga
      4. Reproducible Research
      5. SDN

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      SIGCOMM '17: ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Conference
      August 22 - 24, 2017
      CA, Los Angeles, USA

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