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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.

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

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

References

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