Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Beacon is a Java-based open source OpenFlow controller created in 2010. It has been widely used for teaching, research, and as the basis of Floodlight. This paper describes the architectural decisions and implementation that achieves three of Beacon's goals: to improve developer productivity, to provide the runtime ability to start and stop existing and new applications, and to be high performance.
Author: David Erickson
Institution: Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2089939717