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ONOS: towards an open, distributed SDN OS

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Masayoshi Kobayashi,

Brian O'Connor,

Pavlin Radoslavov,

Guru ParulkarAuthors Info & Claims

HotSDN '14: Proceedings of the third workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking

Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2620728.2620744

Published: 22 August 2014 Publication History

Abstract

We present our experiences to date building ONOS (Open Network Operating System), an experimental distributed SDN control platform motivated by the performance, scalability, and availability requirements of large operator networks. We describe and evaluate two ONOS prototypes. The first version implemented core features: a distributed, but logically centralized, global network view; scale-out; and fault tolerance. The second version focused on improving performance. Based on experience with these prototypes, we identify additional steps that will be required for ONOS to support use cases such as core network traffic engineering and scheduling, and to become a usable open source, distributed network OS platform that the SDN community can build upon.

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ONOS: towards an open, distributed SDN OS
1. Networks
  1. Network architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems

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HotSDN '14: Proceedings of the third workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking

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DOI:10.1145/2620728

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