Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Internal/OpenFlow/topoMapping

Timestamp:

Jul 26, 2012, 5:35:55 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

akoshibe

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Internal/OpenFlow/topoMapping

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 This page aims to serve as documentation for the on-going work to produce a topology mapping tool/service for the ORBIT testbeds. 
 
-== Overview. ==
-The current ORBIT testbeds do not have a framework with which users can easily set up network topologies for their experiments. Users may choose to build test topologies using methods such as:
+== Overview ==
+Currently ORBIT does not have a framework with which users can easily set up network topologies for their experiments. Users may choose to build test topologies using methods such as:
  * node-side packet filtering, e.g. `ebtables`
  * switch partitions, e.g. VLANs 
  * SDN, e.g. !OpenFlow  
-among others, but this entails impromptu scripting or manual configuration.    
+among others, but this entails impromptu scripting or manual configuration. In the ideal scenario a user should be able to set up an experiment by providing a topology description file to a framework that would build the topology on their behalf. 
+
+== Components ==
+The framework/service is expected to have at least the following components:
+==== graph visualization ====
+Two components:
+   1. interpretation of user-provided graphs into a topology description file usable by topology setup components 
+   1. visualization of a topology setup from file
+==== topology description file format ====
+For now, [http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/primer/graphml-primer.html GraphML] has been chosen as the basis for describing topologies. 
+==== topology setup ====
+both on the nodes and network: 
+  * ''nodes'' : via OMF (sorry, not familiar with it) ?
+  * ''network'' : via !OpenFlow e.g. a Floodlight module that takes a topology description and pushes static flows, or even CLI. 
+