Participant:
University of Piraeus Research Center
Objective:
To extend the GÉANT testbed towards an AUTOnomic OpenFLOW (AUTOFLOW) facility and perform focused research and experimentation, in order to demystify this relationship and showcase that Software Defined Networking (SDN)/OpenFlow capabilities can bring "customizable Autonomic Network Management (ANM)" into reality.
Approach:
ANM and SDN have appeared as promising technologies for simplifying the management and control of today's highly interconnected and complex networks. Although it seems that there is a strong link among these two technologies, which can result in an efficient and useful interplay, consistent justification and positioning is still missing in the existing literature and industrial/research studies. An SDN-enabled ANM is a challenging target that can be used to test the usability and limits of the testbed and to provide feedback for its extension and fine-tuning. It can also leverage the interest of the research/academic community, thus contributing to the extension of the facility's user base.
Impact:
The AUTOFLOW experimentation framework will assist in rendering the GÉANT OpenFlow facility an attractive environment for building, testing and validating autonomic, SDN solutions, thus increasing the impact of Testbed as a Service (TaaS) offered by the GÉANT project.
Deliverable:
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