Skip to Main Content
Network Innovation through OpenFlow and SDN
book

Network Innovation through OpenFlow and SDN

by Fei Hu
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 14m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Network Innovation through OpenFlow and SDN
285
NETWORK TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION
© 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
has been added to the hardware’s flow table, packets can be processed
immediately without any expensive host memory copies.
Software Design
e OpenFlow reference switch (either the software version or the
hardware acceleration) needs to be modified to perform the flow fea-
ture extraction for the traffic classifier and to interface with the net-
work flow processor (NFP). is requires an entire new subsystem
Controller
CPU
OpenFlow switch
First packet
Flow table
PCIe
(a)
CPU
OpenFlow switch
Flow table
PCIe
Subsequent packets
(b)
Figure 13.7 OpenFlow switch software behavior. (a) The processing of the ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) with a Touch of SDN

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) with a Touch of SDN

Rajendra Chayapathi, Syed Farrukh Hassan, Paresh Shah
Software Defined Mobile Networks (SDMN)

Software Defined Mobile Networks (SDMN)

Madhusanka Liyanage, Andrei Gurtov, Mika Ylianttila
Linux® Routing

Linux® Routing

Joe Brockmeier, Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Ron McCarty

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781466572096