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
Reading Materials
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- `SD-Fabric Techinar 2021 `_
Introduction to the SD-Fabric project.
- `Software-Defined Networks: A Systems Approach `_
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.
- `5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach `_
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.
- `Aether overview `_
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.
- UP4 architecture
UP4 is the codename for our P4-based UPF project. Optional if your work will not be strictly related to Aether.
- `Blog post (Sep 2021) `_
- `Paper (Sep 2021) `_
- `Slide deck `_
- `Trellis architecture `_
This document is based on an outdated, OF-DPA based data plane. But the control plane design logic remains the same.
.. 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.