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The Road to SDN @ FuZhou University

The Road to SDN

This page gives the steps of learning Software Defined Networking.

Hint: The following repository collects a series of relevant resources of SDN. We recommend you to read it first: awesome-sdn

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This repository has submodules so that you should clone it as follows:

git submodule update --init --recursive

To update submodules:

git submodule update --remote --merge

The Road to SDN

Step Prerequisite knowledge Time Difficulty
0.Coursera: Network History No   1 month middle  
1.TCP/IP protocol stack No 2 month middle
2.SDN Course 2013/2014 1 1 month middle
3.《重构网络：SDN架构与实现》 No 1 month middle
4.开设博客，Github No 1 week easy
5.Linux操作系统，Ubuntu No a period of time middle
6.mininet: Learning by Doing 5 a period of time easy

Learning Resources

0.Coursera Network History:

This link is useful for those who do not have any basic knowledge of computer networks.

1. TCP/IP

2.SDN Course:

3.《重构网络》：

4.Linux/mininet：

Installation：

Learning guide：

Controller：

(1)OpenDayLight:

(2)Ryu:

Data plane devices：

(1)Open vSwitch:

(2)P4:

5.Introduction papers：

  • 《The road to SDN - an intellectual history of programmable networks》
  • 《OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks》
  • 《Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey》

Hint：They can be acquired from:

  • School library homepage => Journal => IEEE or ACM Search
  • Google academic search

6.Experiment platform：