Awesome SDN

A awesome list about Software Defined Network (SDN)

• Awesome SDN
  • Operating System
  • Software Switch
  • Network Virtualization
  • Protocol
  • Controller
  • Simulator/Emulator
  • Language
  • Library
  • Test

Operating System

• PicOS - A SDN OS for white box switches Layer-2/3 feature set with support for OpenFlow, OVSDB, and other protocols.

Software Switch

• OpenvSwtich - Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch.
• Indigo - Indigo is an open source project aimed at enabling support for OpenFlow on physical and hypervisor switches.
• CPqD- An OpenFlow 1.3 compatible user-space software switch implementation
• Lagopus - A high-performance software OpenFlow 1.3 switch.
• LINC-Switch - A pure OpenFlow software switch written in Erlang
• snabbswitch - An open source virtualized Ethernet networking stack.

Network Virtualization

• FlowVisor - An OpenFlow controller that acts as a hypervisor/proxy between a switch and multiple controllers. Can slice multiple switches in parallel, effectively slicing a network.
• OpenVirtex - A network hypervisor that can create multiple virtual and programmable networks on top of a single physical infrastructure.

Protocol

• OpenFlow - A communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network.
• OF-Config - OpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol
• OVSDB - A communication protocol which used to manage the OpenvSwitch database.

Controller

• NOX - An open source development platform for C++-based software-defined networking (SDN) control applications.
• NodeFlow - An OpenFlow Controller Node Style.
• ONOS - Open Network Operating System.
• OpenDaylight - OpenDaylight Platform
• POX - A networking software platform written in Python
• Ryu - A component-based software defined networking framework.
• Floodlight - A java-based openflow controller.
• Vyatta - The first commercial Controller built directly from OpenDaylight.
• OpenContrail - A SDN project that utilizes SDN & NFV and provides all the necessary components for network virtualization.
• IRIS - A Resursive SDN Openflow Controller created by SDN Research Section, ETRI.
• Open MUL - A lightweight SDN/Openflow controller written almost entirely in C from scratch.
• OESS - The Open Exchange Software Suite to configure and control OpenFlow Enabled switches.

Simulator/Emulator

• Mininet - An Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop (or other PC)
• OpenNet - A simulator for software-defined wireless local area network
• Epoch - SDN simulator for Mac OSX
• EstiNet - A world-renowned software tool for network planning
• ns-3 - A discrete-event network simulator that supports openflow environment.

Language

• P4 - A declarative language for expressing how packets are processed by the pipeline of a network forwarding element such as a switch, NIC, router or network function appliance.
• Frenetic - The Frenetic Programming Language and Runtime System

Library

• loxigen - LoxiGen is a tool that generates OpenFlow protocol libraries for a number of languages.
• openfaucet - openfaucet is a pure Python implementation of the OpenFlow 1.0.0 protocol, based on Twisted.
• oflib-node - Oflib-node is an OpenFlow protocol library for Node. It converts between OpenFlow wire protocol messages and Javascript objects.
• OpenFlowJ - A Java implementation of low-level OpenFlow packet marshalling/unmarshalling and IO operations.
• nettle - A Haskell library for working with the OpenFlow protocol.

Test

• oftest - OpenFlow Testing Framework
• STS - SDN Troubleshooting System, simulates network devices, allowing programmatically test cases generation.
• nice-of - A tool to test OpenFlow controller application for the NOX controller platform.
• OpenSDNCore - Virtualisation Testbed for NFV/SDN Environment.