VIRO-GENI: SDN-Based Approach for a Non-IP Protocol in GENI

Non-IP protocols always presented a challenge for network researchers to deploy and test at large scale. GENI infrastructure presents a testbed to deploy large scale network experiments, however, non-IP protocols still raises a challenge to deploy since IP is the narrow waist of the Internet. SDN provides an opportunity implement non-IP protocols, however, the OpenFlow standard is still tied to Ethernet/IP/TCP protocol stack. In the paper, we utilize SDN to provide a framework to deploy and test a non-IP protocol, Virtual Id Routing (VIRO), in GENI using an extended Open vSwitch platform.