Initiating a research body for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). This group aims to put Sudan on the map of SDN/NFV technologies and guide Sudanese researchers in these areas to conduct advance and high quality scientific research, also exchange knowledge, resources and experience with local and international research entities.
2. The power of GROUP
Define the problems to be tackled and the questions to be answered.
Guide the research into directed topics and interpret the results in terms of their
significance for community ,policy change and industry demands.
Disseminate findings and enrich the scientific and industry communities.
3. Build a research group
Clear Goals
Flat Structure
Communication
Resources
Timelines
Integration
Productivity
Research emphasis
Decentralization
Continuity
Achievements
Rewarding & Recognition
4. SDN/NFV Research Groups
Open Networking Foundation (ONF)
IEEE SDN
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)
Stanford University
Metro Ethernet Forum(MEF)
6. Software Defined Networking
A new networking paradigm, Where the forwarding hardware (i.e. network devices as legacy
routers and switches) is decoupled from the control plane i.e. the routing protocols and control
software.
o Programmability
o Flexibility
o Scalability
o Vendor-independency
o Standardization of application programming interfaces
9. SDN Applications
Quality of Service
Congestion aware-routing
Content aware-routing
Security
IoT/WSN
10. Network Functions Virtualization
NFV is to virtualize (known also as network softwarization) a set of network functions by
deploying them into software packages, which can assembled and chained to create the
same services provided in legacy networks.
o Build end-to-end infrastructure
o Flexibility & scalability
o Enable network functions on general purpose computing/storage platforms.
o Horizontal and vertical chaining