OpenFlowMPLS Summer Plans

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Summer Project Implementation

Currently we are in the midst of a Summer Project implementing OpenFlow MPLS. The scope of the project includes:

• Extending the current 10-tuple flow table match to a 12-tuple match. This covers the case of matching up to 2 MPLS labels simultaneously. Majority of MPLS applications are covered by a two label stack.
• Add Virtual Port Table capability to support tunneling and multicast
• Add new push/pop table actions to support encapsulation and decapsulation.
• Extend OF software switch model with the above capability
• Build a NetFPGA implementation with a subset of this OpenFlow MPLS capability, allowing at least swap of an MPLS label, and preferably impose/dispose of at least one label
• Port MPLS Linux for use as the MPLS Management Plane