Functional Overview of OpenflowPlugin as a Southbound - Shuva Jyoti Kar, Faiz Ilahi Kothari, & Muthukumaran Kothandaraman, Ericsson

The Openflowplugin is the only southbound plugin that supports Openflow protocol gateway for all openflow-enabled devices , which is one of the most important protocols for SDN and OpenDaylight. This presentation is to discuss the openflowplugin architecture, overview of its internals, how OpenFlow is used in some of the OpenDaylight applications, and achievements over the past 4 releases. It will cover how new applications can be written using the services of Openflow Plugin.It will also cover the details of how synchronization of controller and network state is achieved during network state changes.

The presentation will also have an overview of the significant design differences between the default design in Boron and the one in Beryllium release and the current design challenges like device compliance.

About Shuva Jyoti Kar
Shuva is an Openflow Plugin Committer and a clustering & mdsal enthusiast. He is a Senior Software Engineer in Ericsson working on Opendaylight -developing key infrastructural pieces and Network Service Functions in the Ericsson SDN Controller Team in India for the past 3 years. | Previous speaking experiences include Paper Presentations at IEEE Conferences , Opendaylight Forum as well as cross organizational presentations at Ericsson.

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