SDN Machine Learning Workshop

Hi and welcome back! We recommend you to Dual boot your system with 2 partitions of Windows and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a mandatory OS to perform the experiments as part of the workshop whereas one could do without Windows (left to your discretion). Follow this YouTube video if you are new to dual booting and need some instructions to do so. The video is taken from YouTube after careful consideration as few other tutorials available online may not always work as expected. After installing Ubuntu on your system, install the following: 1) Mininet Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type the following command(s): > sudo apt-get install mininet > sudo mn If the above commands work without giving any error, it means that Mininet has been installed successfully. Quit the Mininet console by typing 'exit' or 'quit' > sudo mn -c Perform the above to clear your buffers. 2) Git > sudo apt-get install git OR > sudo apt-get install python-pip ...

Hello Everyone! SDN is a very new networking concept and thus an exciting research avenue. You may not have heard of the name, but did you know that Google Data Centres use these too? Well, SDN stands for Software Defined Networking and it proposes a paradigm where we can control network device functionality and operations through a central server (through software and hence the name). Machine Learning as you may be aware of is a mechanism to find out hidden patterns and make analytical predictions of unseen data. Through this workshop, we hope to introduce to you an exciting culmination of these two very researched domains of SDN and ML. The workshop would be a hand-on exercise to ensure maximum exposure to these topics in the limited span of 3 days. Hence, we require you to come a little prepared. Please go through the second post on this blog so you are equipped with the prerequisite tools for the hands-on exercise. I hope you are as excited as we are! Happy Networki...