h1. OpenFlow Documentation

Specific Protocol between the controller and the OF switches. And a set of operations/messages sent to the switches.

* Original Paper: "OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks":http://archive.openflow.org/documents/openflow-wp-latest.pdf
* Original site: "www.opennetworking.org":https://www.opennetworking.org/
* Old site: "www.openflow.org":http://www.openflow.org/
* Specifications:  "1.4.0":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-spec-v1.4.0.pdf, "1.3.2":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-spec-v1.3.2.pdf, "1.3.1":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-spec-v1.3.1.pdf, "1.3.0":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-spec-v1.3.0.pdf, "1.2.0":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-spec-v1.2.pdf, "1.1.0":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-spec-v1.1.0.pdf, "1.0.0":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-spec-v1.0.0.pdf


h2. OpenFlow Basics and Overview

* "What OpenFlow is and more importantly, what it’s not":http://networkheresy.com/2011/06/05/what-openflow-is-and-more-importantly-what-its-not/
* "Origins and Evolution of OpenFlow/SDN":http://networkheresy.com/2011/10/27/origins-and-evolution-of-openflowsdn/
* "OpenFlow components":http://www.openflow.org/wp/openflow-components/
* "Notes on OpenFlow":http://prontosystems.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/notes-on-openflow/
* "OpenFlow is like IPv6":http://blog.ipspace.net/2011/05/openflow-is-like-ipv6.html
* "OpenFlow, Controllers – Whats missing in Routing Protocols today?":http://routingfreak.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/openflow-controllers-whats-missing-in-routing-protocols-today/

h2. OpenFlow Scalability and Peformance

* "On data center scale, OpenFlow, and SDN":http://bradhedlund.com/2011/04/21/data-center-scale-openflow-sdn/
* "The Scaling Implications of SDN":http://networkheresy.com/2011/06/08/the-scaling-implications-of-sdn/
* "On Controller Performance in Software-Defined Networks":https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hot-ice12/hotice12-final33_0.pdf
* "Why OpenFlow Hardware Control Matters in the Data Center?":http://bigswitch.com/blog/2012/12/20/why-openflow-hardware-control-matters-in-the-data-center
* "CAP for Networks":http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/cap-paper.pdf

h2. OpenFlow Programming Languages

* "Languages for Software-Defined Networks":http://frenetic-lang.org/publications/overview-ieeecoms13.pdf
* "Frenetic: A Network Programming Language":http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/icfp11.pdf
* "Composing Software-Defined Networks":http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/nsdi13.pdf
* "Participatory Networking: An API for Application Control of SDNs":http://cs.brown.edu/~rfonseca/pubs/sigcomm13.pdf
* "A Compile and Run-time System for Network Programming Languages":http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/papers/ncore-popl12.pdf
* "Machine-Verified Network Controllers":http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/verified-controllers-pldi13.pdf
* "Nettle: Functional Reactive Programming of OpenFlow Networks":http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/NettlePADL2011.pdf
* "Procera: A Language for High-Level Reactive Network Control":http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/paper/hotsdn/p43.pdf
* "FatTire: Declarative Fault Tolerance for Software-defined Networks":http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~reitblatt/papers/fault-tolerance-hotsdn13.pdf
* "A Balance of Power: Expressive, Analyzable Controller Programming":http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/ngdfk-flowlog-balance-power/paper.pdf

h2. OpenFlow Federation and Isolation

* "Hierarchical Policies for Software Defined Networks":http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/paper/hotsdn/p37.pdf
* "Splendid Isolation: A Slice Abstraction for Software-Defined Networks":http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/paper/hotsdn/p79.pdf

h2. OpenFlow Testing, Verification, Evaluation, Debugging and Tracing

* "Evaluation of OF Controllers":http://www.valleytalk.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Evaluation_Of_OF_Controllers.pdf
* "OFRewind: Enabling Record and Replay Troubleshooting for Networks":http://static.usenix.org/event/atc11/tech/final_files/Wundsam.pdf
* "Where Is the Debugger for My Software-Defined Network?":http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/paper/hotsdn/p55.pdf
* "OFLOPS: An Open Framework for OpenFlow Switch Evaluation":http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/papers/RSUSM-OOFOFSE-12.pdf
* "Logically Centralized? State Distribution Trade-offs in Software Defined Networks":http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/paper/hotsdn/p1.pdf
* "Veriflow: Verifying Network-Wide Invariants in Real Time":http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~khurshi1/papers/veriflow-nsdi-2013.pdf
* "Header Space Analysis: Static Checking for Networks":http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~varghese/PAPERS/headerspace.pdf
* "Real Time Network Policy Checking using Header Space Analysis":https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi13/nsdi13-final8.pdf
* "A NICE Way to Test OpenFlow Applications":http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/nice12.pdf
* "A SOFT Way for OpenFlow Interoperability Testing":http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2012/eproceedings/conext/p265.pdf
* "FlowChecker: Configuration, Analysis, and Verification of Federated OpenFlow Infrastructures":http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1866905

h2. OpenFlow Emulation and Simulation

* "A Network in a Laptop: Rapid Prototyping for Software-Defined Networks":http://klamath.stanford.edu/~nickm/papers/a19-lantz.pdf
* "Fast, Accurate Simulation for SDN Prototyping":http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/hotsdn_final.pdf
* "High-Fidelity Switch Models for Software-Defined Network Emulation":http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/papers/hifi-hotsdn13.pdf

h2. OpenFlow HOWTOs and Tutorials

* "Original OpenFlow Tutorial":http://archive.openflow.org/wk/index.php/OpenFlow_Tutorial 
* "OpenFlow - SDN for engenniers":http://www.stanford.edu/~brandonh/ONS/OpenFlowTutorial_ONS_Heller.pdf
* "OpenFlow/SDN Beginner's Tutorial":http://yuba.stanford.edu/~srini/Beginners_OpenFlowTutorial_Meetup_June_2013.pptx
* "OpenFlow 1.3 Tutorial by CPqD":https://github.com/CPqD/ofsoftswitch13/wiki/OpenFlow-1.3-Tutorial

h2. ONF Testing & Interoperability Working Group

The Testing and Interoperability working group seeks to accelerate the development and adoption of the OpenFlow™ Standard. The group will work toward this goal by ensuring standardized development through testing and certification, fostering interoperability among vendor implementations, and providing an industry-recognized certification for ONF compliance.

h3. March 2012 Interoperability Event

* "Event Technical Paper":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow-test/onf-testing-interop-march-2012-tech-doc-v1.0.pdf
* "Event White Paper":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow-test/onf-testing-interop-march-2012-whitepaper-v1.0.pdf

h3. October 2012 Interoperability Event

* "Event Technical Paper":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow-test/onf-testing-interop-oct-2012-tech-doc-v0-4.pdf
* "Conformance Test Specification for OpenFlow Switch Specification 1.0.1":https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow-test/conformance-test-spec-openflow-1.0.1.pdf

h2. OpenFlow Controllers


h3. Discussão sobre características a serem avaliadas

[[OpenFlowControllers_Features|Características e funcionalidades]]


h3. Análise dedicada

* [[Ryu]]
* [[NOX]]
* [[POX]]
* [[Trema]]
* [[Floodlight]]
* [[OpenDaylight]]


h3. Resumo (desatualizado)

[[OpenFLOW Controllers]]


h2. OpenFlow Switches

*  OpenFlow 1.3 Software Switch
https://github.com/CPqD/ofsoftswitch13