DATA RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION DEVICE CAPABLE OF INTERACTING WITH AN OPENFLOW CONTROLLER

摘要

A data reception and transmission device capable of interacting with an OpenFlow controller, and containing one or more network interfaces, an information reception unit, an initial flow identification unit, an instruction processing unit, an action implementation unit, a group action processing unit, an inter-module interaction unit, a unit for interacting with a controller, and a means for exchanging information between units; the one or more network interfaces are connected to the information reception unit; an output of the information reception unit is connected to an input of the initial flow identification unit; an input of the information reception unit is connected to an output of the inter-module interaction unit, an input of which is connected to an output of the instruction processing unit; the instruction processing unit is connected to the initial flow identification unit; the flow identification unit is connected to the inter-module interaction unit; the instruction processing unit is connected to the action implementation unit, which is connected to the group action processing unit and to the unit for interacting with a controller, which is connected to the instruction processing unit; and the means for exchanging information between units is connected to all of the aforementioned units and to one or more of the aforementioned network interfaces.