Software Defined Networking

Course Title: Software Defined Networking

Code: ФЕИТ10023

ECTS points: 6 ECTS

Number of classes per week: 3+0+0+3

Lecturers: Accos. prof. d-r. Pero Latkoski, Prof. d-r. Borislav Popovski

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Studying the concepts of the new networking paradigm based on software defined control.

Subject of the course content: Introduction to Software Defined Networking - SDN. Need for new network architecture. Active telecommunication networks and architectures. SDN data plane. SDN control plane. Scalable and flexible data networks (VL2). OpenFlow-based software defined networks (FloodLight, Mininet). SDN implementation models. Software extensions for security (FortNox), for wireless communications (OpenRadio, Odin), for network functions (BigData, RouteFlow), for traffic balancing, for energy efficiency. Network visualization. Network virtualization (OpenVSwitch). Applications in telecommunication area and market. Applications in mobile networking.

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