Building NetOpen networking services over OpenFlow-based programmable networks

As the heterogeneity of end systems and their networking applications grows, networking challenges to meet the various requirements of traffics from different applications should be coped with new networking features, not possible in today´s Internet. OpenFlow proposes an open programmable interface to leverage more network controllability by separating control and data path of a network device and delegating the control on the data path to a remote control point. Utilizing the deep programmability of OpenFlow, we introduce NetOpen networking services which attempt to support dynamic configuration of networking characteristics. In this paper, we explain how a NetOpen networking service is built over OpenFlow-based programmable network substrate. To validate the concept of NetOpen networking services, by taking networking connectivity as an example we show an early instantiation of NetOpen networking services over OpenFlow-based programmable network substrate.