ALFMAN is a framework for enabling application-level flow management in SDN-enabled network
The framework is composed of two components: the augmented controller (AC) and the system probe (SP)
The SP is instantiated at all hosts hosting users and applications to be referred to when defining policies. It keeps track of application-level information about traffic flows at these hosts.
This information is stored in the database of the AC. Then the AC takes as input application-level policies composed of rules. These rules are very similar to OpenFlow rules with additional fields to match application-level information. The rule engine of the AC translates these rules to OpenFlow and forwards it to the OpenFlow controller and then to the switches.
The framework is implemented in Python
copy the folder src/awareness_deamon to your workspace
- To launch SP run service_deamon.py src/awareness_deamon
- To use AC install the ovs-naxo.conf in your network simulator
###Authors
Lautaro Dolberg , Jérôme François , Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury , Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba and Thomas Engel
Date : 16/12/2015 All rights reserved GPL version 2.0 to be found at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt 2015 University of Luxembourg - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT)