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son-emu

This is SONATA's emulation platform.

This emulation platform was created to support network service developers to locally prototype and test complete network service chains in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the network service developer's machine.

A short demo that showcases son-emu together with its dummy gatekeeper is available here.

Documentation

1. Introduction
2. Architecture
3. APIs
4. Usage
5. Build and installation

Cite this work

If you use son-emu for your research and/or other publications, please cite the following paper to reference our work:

• M. Peuster, H. Karl and S. van Rossem, "MeDICINE: Rapid prototyping of production-ready network services in multi-PoP environments," 2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 148-153. doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490
  • Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7919490/
  • Pre-print: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05995

Work based on son-emu

• TODO references to demos/papers