Abstract-Nowadays, while most of the programmable network apparatus vendors support OpenFlow, a number of fragmented control plane solutions exist for proprietary SoftwareDefined Networks. Thus, network applications developers are forced to re-implement their solutions every time they encounter a new network controller. Moreover, different network developers adopt different solutions as control plane programming language (e.g. Frenetic, Procera), severely limiting code sharing and reuse. Despite having OpenFlow as candidate standard interface between the controller and the network infrastructure, interoperability between different controllers and network devices is hindered and closed ecosystems are emerging. In this paper we present the roadmap toward NetIDE, an integrated development environment which aims at supporting the whole development lifecycle of vendor-agnostic network applications.
Furthermore, the NetIDE REF project aims at providing a fully integrated development environment supporting the whole development lifecycle of SDN controller applications.
NetIDE: First Steps towards an Integrated Development Environment for Portable Network Apps
2013 Second European Workshop on Software Defined Networks
2013 Second European Workshop on Software Defined Networks
Computer Science