NetIDE is a EU-funded project that is known to the OpenDaylight community, because we have contributed a component to the Beryllium release. However, the full NetIDE ecosystem is much more. It is an extended SDN controller framework that allows users to cherry-pick the best of breed both for the network facing controller and the SDN framework for applications. In addition it provides an application composition engine that allows network operators to introduce software development concepts like code reusability in their production cycle. In this talk, I will introduce the whole Network Engine as well as the NetIDE Eclipse plugin that allows us to create SDN applications, test them and run them on the NetIDE engine and reflect on why we contributed what we contributed to OpenDaylight.

1. June 20–23, 2016 | Berlin, Germany

2. NetIDE: Integrating and
Orchestrating SDN Controllers
Dr. Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez, Telefónica I+D
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,
technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 619543

3. Agenda
• Problem statement
• NetIDE concepts and outcomes
• Framework
• Architecture
• IDE
• Tools
• Results
• Assuring the survival of the code beyond the project lifetime

4. Problem statement
• SDN promises to introduce agile Software development
techniques in the way operators use their networks
• Shorter time to market
• Reuse successful services
• However, there are different SDN platforms out in the
market
• How to select one
• Best of breed
• Fit to purpose
• From vendor lock-in to platform lock-in?

5. The NetIDE framework
NetIDE aims at supporting the whole
development lifecycle of network apps in a
platform-independent fashion:
• Integrated SDN development environment
• Covering the full lifetime of SDN applications
• It brings all the goodies of Software Design and
Development to Networking:
• Platform independence
• Code re-usability
• Developer tools (debugger, profiler, logger, etc.)

6. The Network Engine
• Client/Server SDN controller paradigm of ONF
• Network Application’s modules are given the runtime
environment they expect in the client controller
• Multi-controller support (OpenDaylight, Ryu, Floodlight,
ONOS, …)
• Backend: southbound plugin
• Core Layer:
• provides a controller-independent means to compose apps and
resolve conflicts between them.
• Provides a unified interface with the tools
• Shim Layer: northbound plugin
The NetIDE protocol coordinates
the layers

7. Develop, deploy and test
Develop the code and
configure the topology
Automatically deploy
the SDN applications
Test and debug the
applications

8. Code Editors
Graphical
Topology Editor
Tools for i.e. debugging
and inspecting of the
control channel
Integrated Development Environment
• Code Editors (PyDev, CDT, Java,…)
• Topology editor
• Interface to
• Network Engine:
• Client controller(s)
• Server controller
• Tools
• Access underlying network
• Mininet CLI
• Network Elements
Mininet CLI

9. The topology editor
• Graphical editor to create
and edit network
topologies
• Imports the underlying
topology from the NetIDE
Network Engine
• Topology generator
produces configuration
files for Mininet

10. Developer tools
Help developers to systematically test, profile, and tune their
Network Apps
ØLogger: tracing capabilities to judge the performance of the
deployed Network App
ØGarbage Collector: Cleans the switches’ memory from
unused flow rules
ØModel Checker: systematically check app behaviour and
flag actions that lead to violations of the desired safety
properties
ØProfiler: judging the impact of network failures on the
Network App behaviour
ØDebugger: supports debug of packet processing (OFReplay,
packet inspection and flow table checking)

11. Assuring results survive NetIDE
• NetIDE is finishing end of December 2016
• However this does not mean that the results will die with
the project
• We assure their survival by contributing them to different
FOSS projects

12. OpenDaylight
NetIDE is an OpenDaylight Project since
the 26th of June, 2015.
https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Project_
Proposals:NetIDE
Shim is shipped as the NETIDE project
with OpenDaylight Beryllium
https://www.opendaylight.org/odlbe

13. Eclipse Marketplace
The IDE and related tools are
available on the Eclipse Marketplace
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/netide
Makes it easy for people to test and adopt
them

14. Floodlight
vNetIDE included among the authors and
contributors of the Floodlight Controller
https://floodlight.atlassian.net/wiki/display/floodlightcontroller/Authors+an
d+Contributors
vArchitectural concepts ported to Floodlight:
vSignal applications when an input event has been
consumed
vDriving the execution flow of the controller: i.e.
delivering the network event only to specific
applications in a specific order (overriding the
controller’s default behaviour)

15. Github repository
Full source code of the last and best version of
IDE, Network Engine and Tools are publicly
available on Github under Eclipse Public
License v1.0
https://github.com/fp7-netide
Usecases contains
implementations of
target scenarios to
validate our framework.

16. In the way of a conclusion
• Multi-controller coordination allows us to
• Choose best of breed
• Build on proven building blocks instead of rewriting
• Really capitalise on the “S” aspect of SDN
• NetIDE has produced a range of tools that realise
software development paradigms in networks
• Using FOSS projects helped us concentrate on the
essentials
• We are giving back (and assuring results survive the
project)

17. So why not…
• Contributing to OPNFV?
• Some components are
already in projects that
are used within OPNFV
• We could consider
contributing the code of
other components
• Just contact us
http://www.netide.eu
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NetIDE aims at delivering a
single IDE to support the
whole development lifecycle of
network controller programs in
a vendor-independent fashion.
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