PUCPLight: A SDN/OpenFlow controller for an academic campus network

Gabriel Cuba, Juan Manuel Becerra, Gumercindo Bartra, Cesar Santivanez

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Abstract

Campus networks - with his high diversity of users, traffic requirements, fast changing roles, and openness of equipment (BYOD) - present multiple unique challenges difficult to meet with traditional networking technologies. SDN/OpenFlow provides a new toolset to rethink and redesign a campus network with aims at higher scalability, flexibility, and lower cost. This paper presents PUCPLight, an SDN/OpenFlow controller for a layer 2 campus network of tens of thousands of users. PUCPLight is a first approximation to a vision of a pure SDN scalable, flexible campus network that seamlessly supports from administrative services, to high performance computing, to experimental research. This paper describes the drives behind PUCPLight design, some of the design choices, as well as initial results proving scalability to a subnet of 10K nodes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2016 IEEE ANDESCON, ANDESCON 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509025312
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jan 2017
Event2016 IEEE ANDESCON, ANDESCON 2016 - Arequipa, Peru
Duration: 19 Oct 201621 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2016 IEEE ANDESCON, ANDESCON 2016

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE ANDESCON, ANDESCON 2016
Country/TerritoryPeru
CityArequipa
Period19/10/1621/10/16

Keywords

  • controller
  • networking
  • openflow
  • SDN
  • switch

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