Software Defined Networks detailed syllabus for Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (ETE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ETE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ETE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VIII scheme and its subjects refer to ETE Professional Elective-VIII syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of software defined networks is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SDN: BACKGROUND AND DATA PLANE
Evolving Network Requirements – The SDN Approach – SDN and NFV-Related Standards – SDN Data Plane – OpenFlow Logical Network Device – OpenFlow Protocol.
Unit II
SDN CONTROL PLANE
SDN Control Plane Architecture: Southbound Interface, Northbound Interface – Control Plane Functions – ITU-T Model – OpenDaylight – REST – Cooperation and Coordination among Controllers.
Unit III
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Unit IV
NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION
NFV Concepts – Benefits and Requirements – Reference Architecture – NFV Infrastructure -Virtualized Network Functions – NFV Management and Orchestration – NFV Use cases – SDN and NFV
Unit V
NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION
Virtual LANs – OpenFlow VLAN Support – Virtual Private Networks – Network Virtualization -OpenDaylight’s Virtual Tenant Network – CoSoftware-Defined Infrastructure
Practical Exercises
- Installing Mininet simulator
- Creating a 1 controller, 3 node topology, POX controller
- Ability to view, read/write Flow table rules (for different applications – say firewall, Learning switch etc.), POX, Open vSwitch
- Building a SDN based application
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- William Stallings, “Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT and Cloud”, Pearson Education, 1st Edition, 2015.
- Thomas D Nadeau, Ken Gray, “SDN: Software Defined Networks”, O’Reilly Media, 2013. REFERENCES
- Fei Hu, “Network Innovation through OpenFlow and SDN: Principles and Design”, 1st Edition, CRC Press, 2014.
- Paul Goransson, Chuck Black Timothy Culver, “Software Defined Networks: A Comprehensive Approach”, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Press, 2016.
- Oswald Coker, Siamak Azodolmolky, “Software-Defined Networking with OpenFlow”, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly Media, 2017.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 6th Sem, visit ETE 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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