SDN'12: Workshop on Software Defined Networks

Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

June 15 2012, Ottawa, Canada

Scope

The objective of this workshop is to bring together practitioners of software defined networks (SDN), from across the different sub-disciplines (optical, “core”, wireless) as well as from academy and industry, to exchange ideas, present exiting new approaches, as well as openly discuss the challenges and opportunities.

As this workshop is targeting participants from a very broad, and often fragmented spectrum, we envision a highly interactive program to identify common challenges and approaches to solve them despite the very different environments in which they may get applied. We therefore specifically invite contributions focusing on visionary ideas and long term challenges to stimulate healthy discussions.

This workshop is open to everyone wanting to participate in a lively discussion on these topics.

Program

8:30 - 8:40: Opening

8:40 - 9:30: Keynote 1

• A Declarative Perspective on Programmable Networking
  Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)
  Declarative networking is a programming methodology that enables developers to concisely specify network protocols and services, and directly compile these specifications into a dataflow framework for execution. This talk describes recent advances in declarative networking, tracing its evolution from a rapid prototyping framework towards a platform that serves as an important bridge connecting formal theories for reasoning about protocol correctness and actual implementations. In particular, the talk surveys on the use of declarative networking for addressing four main challenges in the distributed systems development cycle: the generation of safe routing implementations, debugging, security and privacy, and optimizing distributed systems. I will conclude by speculating how ideas from declarative networking can be applied to the exciting new domain of Software Defined Networking.

9:30 - 10:00: Session 1

• Cost, performance & flexibility in OpenFlow: Pick three
  Charalampos Rotsos (University of Cambridge, UK); Richard Mortier (University of Nottingham, UK); Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge, UK); Balraj Singh (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Andrew W. Moore (University of Cambridge, UK)

10:30 - 12:30: Session 2

• Scalable Fault Management for OpenFlow
  James Kempf (Ericsson Research, USA); Elisa Bellagamba (Ericsson, Sweden); András Kern (Ericsson, Hungary); Dávid Jocha (Ericsson, Hungary); Attila Takacs (Ericsson, Hungary); Pontus Sköldström (Acreo AB, Sweden)
• A Programmable Networking Switch Node with In-network Processing Support
  Namgon Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea); Jae-Yong Yoo (GIST, Korea); NamGon L Kim (GIST, Korea); JongWon Kim (GIST, Korea)
• Driving Software Defined Networks with XSP
  Ezra Kissel (University of Delaware, USA); Guilherme Fernandes (Indiana University, USA); Matthew Jaffee (Indiana University, USA); Martin Swany (Indiana University, USA); Miao Zhang (Indiana University, USA)
• Network Virtualization and Resource Allocation in OpenFlow-based Wide Area Networks
  Pontus Sköldström (Acreo AB, Sweden); Kiran Yedavalli (Ericsson, USA)
• Abstracting network state in Software Defined Networks (SDN) for rendezvous services
  Vijay Gurbani (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Michael Scharf (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Germany); T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Volker Hilt (Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Enrico Marocco (Telecom Italia, Italy)

2:00 - 3:30: Session 3

• Realizing Packet-Optical Integration with SDN and OpenFlow 1.1 Extensions
  Meral Shirazipour (Ericsson, Canada); James Kempf (Ericsson Research, USA); Howard Green (Ericsson Research, USA); Mallik Tatipamula (Ericsson Research, USA); Wolfgang John (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
• Verification of Switching Network Properties Using Satisfiability
  Rick McGeer (HP Laboratories, USA)
• Supporting Information-Centric Functionality in Software Defined Networks
  Stefano Salsano (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Nicola Blefari-Melazzi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Andrea Detti (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Luca Veltri (University of Parma, Italy); Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania, Italy)
• A Flexible In-Network IP Anonymization Service
  Marc Mendonca (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Srini Seetharaman (Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, USA); Katia Obraczka (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

4:00 - 4:40: Keynote 2

• Software Driven or Defined Networks
  Thomas D. Nadeau (Juniper Networks)
  This presentation will describe the differences between these two approaches and why they are both important, but why the approaches are quite different in purpose and approach. We will touch on why software driven networking is a superset of software defined networking (OpenFlow). The presentation will also discuss the applicability of software driven networks in the context of modern applications and services, and why taking the wider view of software driven networks is beneficial.

4:40 - 6:00: Panel

Important Dates

Organization

Keynote Speaker Bios

Boon Thau Lo

Boon Thau Loo is an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. Prior to his Ph.D, he received his M.S. degree from Stanford University in 2000, and his B.S. degree with highest honors from UC Berkeley in 1999. His research focuses on distributed data management systems, Internet-scale query processing, and the application of data-centric techniques and formal methods to the design, analysis and implementation of networked systems. He was awarded the 2006 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for the most outstanding dissertation research in the Department of EECS at UC Berkeley, and the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2009) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award (2012). He has served as the program co-chair for the CoNEXT 2008 Student Workshop, the NetDB 2009 workshop co-located with SOSP, and the Workshop on Rigorous Protocol Engineering (WRiPE 2011) co-located with ICNP.

Thomas D. Nadeau

Tom is a Distinguished Engineer in the PSD CTO Office at Juniper Networks where he is responsible for leading all aspects of Software Defined Networks and Network Programmability.

Prior to Juniper Tom was a VP/Senior Principle Software Architect at CA Technologies where he is responsible for architecture and standards leadership around CA’s network infrastructure management and service assurance products. Prior to joining CA Technologies, Tom held Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect roles at Huawei Technologies, BT and Cisco Systems.

Tom is an active participant in the IETF, ITU, and IEEE. He is co-author numerous protocol, architecture and MIB documents in the MPLS, BFD, L2/L3 VPN, MPLS-TP, pseudo-wire, and traffic engineering areas, including being a co-author of over 40 IETF RFCs, numerous internet drafts, and ITU-T contributions. Tom has been granted 14 US Patents including #7099947, #7,408,941, #7447167, #7526480, #7,583,593, #7,599,303, #7,746,793, #7,773,611, #7,782,790, #7,808,919, #7,839,847, and #7,912,934.

Tom received his BSCS from The University of New Hampshire, and a M.Sc. from The University of Massachusetts in Lowell, where he has been an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science since 2000 and teaches courses on the topic of data communications. He is also on the technical committee of several prominent networking conferences where he provides technical guidance on their content, as well as frequently presents. He has been a guest editor for three issues of IEEE Communications magazine (October 2004, June 2005, and March 2008). He is the author of MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools, and Techniques (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002), technical editor of Enabling VPN Aware Networks with MPLS (Prentice-Hall Publishers, 2001), contributing author of Network Management Know It All (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2008) as well as MPLS: Next Steps, Volume 1 (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2008). Tom is currently working on several books on the topic of SDN and Network Programmability.