Whitepaper
A seven page whitepaper that outlines the protocol, system architecture, and use cases. If you don’t know anything about OpenFlow, you should read this first.
This whitepaper was written by:
| Nick McKeown Stanford University |
Tom Anderson University of Washington |
Hari Balakrishnan MIT |
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| Guru Parulkar Stanford University |
Larry Peterson Princeton University |
Jennifer Rexford Princeton University |
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| Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley |
Jonathan Turner Washington University in St. Louis |
Specification
This is the latest version of the OpenFlow Switch Specification, the standards document that describes the protocol that is used between an OpenFlow Switch and the OpenFlow Controller. It is targeted at a technical audience that wants to understand the details of the protocol or do OpenFlow related development.
