Syllabus

Introduction

• Introduction to the course

• Architecture of network devices

Linux networking

• The Linux Network Stack

• Virtual networking - Networking in virtual environments

Software-based network processing

• Software packet filters

• Packet processing with libpcap/WinPcap (with source code example)

• Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF)

• P4 (prof. Mario Baldi)

• High-speed software-based data plane processing

• NIC acceleration primitives for networking

Software-defined networks

• Software Defined Networks

• OpenFlow

• Networks Functions Virtualization

• Netconf, Restconf, YANG, OpenConfig

• Network Automation

Seminars

Seminars will be announced later in November. Slides, when shared by the speaker, are available on the POLITO teaching portal. 

Labs

• Lab 1: HTTP traffic processing with libpcap

• Lab 2: Network monitoring with eBPF

• Lab 3: Principles of Virtual Networking: Software bridges, OpenvSwitch/OpenFlow, Tunneling

• Lab 4: Software-defined Networking with ONOS