Projects and Research Groups

List of open-source SDN projects:

http://www.sdncentral.com/comprehensive-list-of-open-source-sdn-projects

ONRC: http://onrc.stanford.edu

As inventors of OpenFlow and SDN, we seek to "open up the Internet infrastructure for innovations" and enable the larger network industry to build networks that offer increasingly sophisticated functionality yet are cheaper and simpler to manage than current networks. We are now focused on creating a solid intellectual foundation of SDN: * SDN control plane abstractions. * SDN systems: OpenFlow optimized switch or fabric, network operating system, network virtualization system, and programming and debugging systems. * New network capabilities enabled by SDN. * Exploring scalability, reliability, and security of SDN and its components.

Network Development and Deployment Initiative (NDDI): http://www.internet2.edu/network/ose

Built using the first production deployment of OpenFlow technology, NDDI will deliver a "software-defined network" (SDN), a common infrastructure that can create multiple virtual networks, allowing researchers to experiment with new Internet protocols and architectures, and at the same time enabling domain scientists to accelerate their research with collaborators worldwide.

Open Networking Foundation (ONF): https://www.opennetworking.org

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a non-profit consortium dedicated to the transformation of networking through the development and standardization of a unique architecture called Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which brings direct software programmability to networks worldwide. The mission of the Foundation is to commercialize and promote SDN and the underlying technologies as a disruptive approach to networking that will change how virtually every company with a network operates.

Software Defined Networking Research Group (SDNRG): http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/sdnrg/sdnrg.html

http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/irtf/trac/wiki/sdnrg

The Software Defined Networking Research Group (SDNRG) investigates SDN from various perspectives with the goal of identifying the approaches that can be defined, deployed and used in the near term as well identifying future research challenges. In particular, key areas of interest include solution scalability, abstractions, and programming languages and paradigms particularly useful in the context of SDN. In addition, it is an explicit goal of the SDNRG to provide a forum for researchers to investigate key and interesting problems in the Software Defined Networking field.

Software Driven Network Protocol (SDNP): http://www.lucidvision.com/sdnp_bof_charter.txt

http://www.lucidvision.com/mailman/listinfo/sdnp

Software Driven Networks (SDN) is an approach to networks that enables applications to converse with and manipulate the control software of network devices and resources. Applications include path computation, topology discovery, firewall services, domain name services, network address translation services, virtual private networks and the like. This working group shall only interact with the controlling software that marshals control over one or more data planes.

OpenStack: http://www.openstack.org

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.