Software Defined Datacenter:

Problem statement:

Overview:

Deploying a Software defined network(SDN) on a physical hardware consisting raspberry pi. Performing network slicing and further installing firewall as a service on the sliced network.

Description:

The deployed single physical network which contains two types of traffic : Type-1 (Faculty) and Type-2 (students). The Type-1 traffic gets higher bandwidth and lower delays and goes through relaxed firewall rules while Type-2 gets smaller bandwidth per user and best effort delays and restricted rules through firewall.

Tasks:

1. Deploy SDN network on hardware using 6 host(3 raspberry pi and 3 ubuntu complaint system), neatgear L2 switch and SDN software components. This is task 1.
2. Performing network slicing using OpenVirtex and mininet. This is task 2.
3. Deploying SDN virtual network according to the description provided above.
4. Installing various network functions such as Firewall as a Service(FWaaS) on the above sliced network inside mininet. This is task 3.

Project Documentation:

1. Network topology deployed using SDN on physical hardware.
2. Procedure followed for various tasks: a. For task 1. b. For task 2. c. For task 3.

Few references to working VM images for SDN softwares:

1. Mininet VM, a network simulation tool for SDN network.
2. FloodLight VM, a SDN controller.
3. OpenVirtex VM, a network slicing tool.