| Development Guide |
| ================= |
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| Background Knowledge |
| -------------------- |
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| NG-SDN Tutorial |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| We highly recommend people to go through the **NG-SDN Tutorial** as preparation for the SD-Fabric development work. |
| You will learn all the required background knowledge and get opportunities |
| to run hands-on experiments as part of the tutorial. |
| The tutorial is free and publicly available at: https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/ngsdn-tutorial |
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| Reading Materials |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| - `SD-Fabric Techinar 2021 <https://opennetworking.org/events/sd-fabric-techinar/>`_ |
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| Introduction to the SD-Fabric project. |
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| - `Software-Defined Networks: A Systems Approach <https://sdn.systemsapproach.org>`_ |
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| Book about SDN in the context of P4, Stratum ONOS, whitebox switches, etc. |
| Even if you are already familiar with most of the concepts, |
| it should give you “full-stack” view of how we use programmable data planes at ONF. |
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| - `5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach <https://5g.systemsapproach.org>`_ |
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| Same as the SDN book but related to 5G architecture, a very good starting point to |
| get aligned with other ONF engineers around architecture and terminology for mobile networks. |
| Optional if your work will not be strictly related to Aether. |
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| - `Aether overview <https://youtu.be/ZzwFQCSmOJg>`_ |
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| There are many videos available on YouTube, this one should be the most recent. |
| Optional if your work will not be strictly related to Aether. |
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| - UP4 architecture |
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| UP4 is the codename for our P4-based UPF project. Optional if your work will not be strictly related to Aether. |
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| - `Blog post (Sep 2021) <https://opennetworking.org/news-and-events/blog/using-p4-and-programmable-switches-to-implement-a-4g-5g-upf-in-aether/>`_ |
| - `Paper (Sep 2021) <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~macdavid/media/up4-sosr21.pdf>`_ |
| - `Slide deck <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IlxsGKXPtqfFFAqORZV-N5OuCvoLloXQuKjvaL5Xf7M>`_ |
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| - `Trellis architecture <https://docs.trellisfabric.org/1.12/architecture.html>`_ |
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| This document is based on an outdated, OF-DPA based data plane. But the control plane design logic remains the same. |
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| .. note:: |
| We are working on development guides for ``fabric-tna`` pipeline and SD-Fabric control applications (``SegmentRouting``, ``UPF``, ``INT``). |
| More contents will be available shortly. |