Table 3 Representative summary of important programmable networking concepts
From: Building programmable wireless networks: an architectural survey
Project | Framework | Year | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
Active control of network nodes | |||
Active Networking | 1997 | Java-based active networking toolkit proposed as part of the MIT’s ActiveWare[74] project. | |
SwitchWare[76] | Active Networking | 1998 | Active networking project at Uni. of Pennsylvania which focused on both security and performance issues. |
CANEs[75] | Active Networking | 1998/9 | Composable Active Network Elements (CANEs) project at Georgia Tech. |
Separation of the control Plane (CP) and the data plane (DP), and remote control of DP | |||
Tempest[40] | OpenSig | 1998 | Programmable framework for safe control of ATM switches. Allowed multiple control architectures to coexist on the same network, and a safe partitioned environment for third party, or dynamically loaded, active code. |
GSMP[79] | Pre-SDN | 2002 | General Switch Management Protocol (GSMP) proposed by an IETF working group to control a label switch. |
ForCES[80] | Pre-SDN | 2004 | It defines a standardized interface between a network’s control elements (CEs) and forwarding elements (FEs). |
RCP[81] | Pre-SDN | 2004 | This work proposed separating routing from routers and outsourcing it to a separate router control platform (RCP). |
SoftRouter[82] | Pre-SDN | 2004 | SoftRouter proposed separation of the control plane functions from the packet forwarding functions. |
4D[83] | Pre-SDN | 2005 | 4D proposed an architecture with decision, dissemination, discovery, and data - i.e., the 4D - planes, to separate decision logic from distributed systems issues. |
Routing as a service[84] | Pre-SDN | 2006 | Proposed the provision of offering customized route computation as a service by third party providers. |
PCE architecture[85] | Pre-SDN | 2006 | Path-computation-element (PCE)-based architecture (RFC 4655) where the PCE is an application located within a network node, or on an out-of-network server. |
CogNet[63] | Pre-SDN | 2006 | CogNet proposed separated CP and DP with an extensible global CP controlling the separated DPs through an API. |
IRSCP[86] | Pre-SDN | 2006 | Proposed Intelligent Route Service Control Point (IRSCP) that allowed route selection to be performed outside the routers through external network intelligence. |
SANE[87] | Pre-SDN | 2006 | SANE is a enterprise network security/ protection architecture implemented through a ‘logically centralized’ server. |
Ethane[88] | Cusp of SDN-era | 2007 | Ethane proposed fine-grain control of simple flow-based Ethernet switches through a centralized controller. |
OpenFlow[8] | SDN | 2008 | OpenFlow defines a southbound API/protocol standardized by ONF through which a separated dedicated controller can control multiple DPs remotely. |
Open APIs | |||
xbind[39] | OpenSig | 1996 | Toolkit developed at Columbia Uni. for creating broadband kernels - that program broadband ATM nets like PCs. |
Mobiware[41] | OpenSig | 1998 | Programming QoS-aware middleware for mobile multimedia networking developed at Columbia University. |
NetScript | OpenSig | 1999 | Language for programmable processing of packet streams. |
OpenFlow[8] | SDN | 2008 | Southbound API standardized by ONF. |
Floodlight API[8] | SDN | 2012 | A RESTful northbound API between the controller platform and the SDN Applications. |
Juniper APIs[89] | SDN | 2012 | JunOS SDK, XML API (NetConf), and Contrail REST API supported. |
Cisco ONE[90] | SDN | 2012 | Network APIs (including southbound API) specified by Cisco; supports EEM (tcl), Python Scripting. |
OpenStack APIs[91] | Cloud/ SDN | 2012 | OpenStack Neutron (formerly Quantum) is a OpenStack subsystem for managing networks in a cloud environment. |
Network virtualization | |||
Virtual switches[39] | OpenSig | 1996 | Proposed virtualizing ATM switches as part of the xbind[39] project. |
Switchlets[40] | OpenSig | 1998 | Proposed dynamically loadable code on a (partition of) ATM switches as part of the Tempest[40]. |
Virtual base stations[41] | OpenSig | 1998 | Proposed as part of the Mobiware[41] project subscribing to the OpenSig framework. |
Routelets[42] | OpenSig | 1999 | Proposed in the Genesis[42] project. |
Overlays Networks | 2003 | Proposed overlays, virtualized slicing, and programmability for accelerating innovations in the Internet community. | |
FlowVisor[94] | SDN | 2009 | Virtualizes OpenFlow-based SDNs by carving out virtualized “slices” out of production networks[95]. |
SecondNet[96] | SDN/ Datacenters | 2012 | Proposes a virtual datacenter (VDC) abstraction as the unit of resource allocation for multiple tenants in the cloud. |
Network virtualization platform (NVP)[97] | SDN/ Datacenters | 2014 | Proposed a overlay-based network virtualization platform (NVP) for use in production multitenant datacenters. |