OpenFlow Competition Results
Cambridge, UK | 28 February 2013
After a very successful competition, the GÉANT OpenFlow team is proud to announce the results of the slice contest which closed on the 22nd of February.
We would like to thank all researchers, teams and organizations that submitted their proposals. We have received very interesting ideas ranging from Future Internet research topics to OpenFlow technology research and development. Proposals have originated from academic research teams, research institutes, corporate facilities of universities/research centres and NRENs.
OpenFlow competition winner
The winner of the contest is the MTA-BME Future Internet Research Group in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics). The team has an extensive track record of scientific achievements in the area of Internet architectures and network management.
The proposal focuses on network resiliency research at the transport layer, utilizing OpenFlow capabilities to provide edge-disjoint routes on top of a network core. The research aims to eliminate the need for concurrent resiliency mechanisms at the physical, transport and network layer and associated complexities/costs.
Using the GÉANT OpenFlow facility for this research is considered as particularly relevant, since the facility provides a realistic environment to measure resilience mechanisms and convergence times exploiting the OpenFlow capabilities offered.
Announcing the runner-up
The proposal from the eScience research group of GWDG, a corporate facility of the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, is the runner-up for this contest. This focuses on research on OpenFlow itself, proposing testing and evaluation of a specialized SDN controller developed by the group with focus on the use case of inter-data center federation. A theoretical framework is suggested to confirm performance findings as a result of testing on top of the GÉANT OpenFlow facility. The facility is considered particularly useful for the group's work as the use case requirements include a wide-area environment with disjoint paths and the GÉANT OF facility can also be used to test the controller capabilities.
The contest runner-up will also be contacted by the GÉANT OpenFlow team to investigate possibilities for hosting of their proposed experiments subject to availability of the facility
MTA-BME will be starting to use the facility as soon as possible and will be reporting on how the OF facility has benefited their research in the near future.
For more information, please see the original competition page or contact openflowcompetition@geant.net for more information on the results.
