Mininet's API is built at three primary levels [4]: Low-level API: The low-level API consists of the base node and link classes (such as Host, Switch, and Link and their subclasses) which can actually ...

OpenFlow switches are configurable via the OpenFlow API, and also have an MPLS extension for quality-of-service and service-level-agreement support. By extending these capabilities to ns-3 for a ...

OpenFlow, in particular, is becoming popular and starts being deployed. While the definition of the "northbound" API that can be used by the new services to interact with an OpenFlow controller is ...

We already have this in a central database! So let’s just program it!” With a general API like OpenFlow, SDN makes the introduction of new vendor operating systems much easier, Gashinsky says.

OpenFlow 1.3.0 was developed by the Extensibility Working Group of ONF, which is tasked with moving technical work forward and making OpenFlow more flexible. The new version includes support for: ...

The possibilities of SDN, in particular OpenFlow, are exciting. But to see the possible become reality will depend on how quickly a capable and usable Northbound API is developed.

Clearly the iPhone API has been well-received by mobile application developers. Unlikely that we'd ever see millions of Apps for OpenFlow on the OpenFlow app-store, but I'd bet we'd be ecstatic if ...

I’ll review OpenFlow’s origins and the variety of problems it is solving, cover its current common architecture, and then look forward to why OpenFlow is such a disruptive technology that will ...

At the Open Networking Foundation, which is focused exclusively on SDNs? Not so much. They’re focused on bulking up the southbound OpenFlow API and protocol, Ward said.

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