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POFOX: Towards Controlling the Protocol Oblivious Forwarding Network

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Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing and Ubiquitous Services

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Protocol Oblivious Forwarding (POF) is a recently proposed technology that enables a protocol independent data plane under the context of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). In this paper, we present POFOX, a SDN controller for POF. POFOX employs the full potentials of POF devices by allowing a protocol oblivious data plane, and it provides a simple programming model similar to POX. Based on POFOX, we construct a network testbed, and experimentally illustrate that POFOX can effectively manage the POF network, and provide the controlling functionality with high performances.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the sub task of the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No. XDA06011202 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Grant No. 61202405.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei Anhui, 230026, China

    Xiaodong Tan, Shan Zou, Haoran Guo & Ye Tian

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Tan, X., Zou, S., Guo, H., Tian, Y. (2016). POFOX: Towards Controlling the Protocol Oblivious Forwarding Network. In: Park, J., Yi, G., Jeong, YS., Shen, H. (eds) Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing and Ubiquitous Services. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 368. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0068-3_3

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