16 Oct 2015
Carving Research Slices Out of Your Production Networks with OpenFlow
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/demos/sigcomm-pd-2009-final65.pdf
Network slicing implies that actions in one slice do not negatively
affect other slices, even if they share the same underlying physical
hardware.
A common network slicing technique is VLANs. With VLANs, the
administrator partitions the network by switch port and all traffic is
mapped to a VLAN by input port or explicit tag.
- Centralized policy enforcement
- All control traffic, from switch to controller and from controller
to switch, traverses the FlowVisor.
- Decouple control and virtualization technologies
- Rather than building virtualization support directly into the
OpenFlow protocol itself, we intentionally keep the control and
virtualization aspects orthogonal. This allows each technology to
evolve independently, avoiding new forms of ossification.