Publications

Papers

• Nikhil Handigol, Brandon Heller, Vimal Jeyakumar, Bob Lantz, and Nick McKeown. Reproducible Network Experiments using Container-Based Emulation. CoNEXT 2012, December 10-13, 2012, Nice, France.

  This paper advocates changing the practice of computer networking research (and CS in general), by demonstrating reproducible experiments using Mininet-HiFi, aka Mininet 2.0, and includes an overview of its design as well as experiences using Mininet to reproduce 16 published network experiments.

• Bob Lantz, Brandon Heller, and Nick McKeown. A Network in a Laptop: Rapid Prototyping for Software-Defined Networks. 9th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, October 20-21, 2010, Monterey, CA.

  This paper explains the basic Mininet design and workflow.

Reproducible Network Experiments using Mininet

• http://reproducingnetworkresearch.wordpress.com

Technical Reports

• CSTR 2012-2 Mininet performance fidelity benchmarks*

Presentations and Slides

• Mininet-HiFi: Rapid, High Fidelity SDN Prototyping

  Presentation from SDN CTO Summit describing Mininet-HiFi features, which have since been integrated into Mininet 2.0.

• A Network in a Laptop: Rapid Prototyping for Software Defined Networks

  Brandon's presentation from Hotnets-IX (10/20/2010) explains the Mininet architecture and SDN workflow, from prototyping to hardware deployment, and includes a slide on adding performance fidelity to Mininet.

• "Mininet: Squeezing a 1000-node OpenFlow Network onto a Laptop"

  Bob's original presentation to the OpenFlow Software Architecture and Implementation (SWAI) working group from 11/19/2009 (with an additional slide to illustrate the kernel datapath),