[Reading Summary] OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks

The backgroud is that I am working as an engineer in cisco developing products with inhouse ASIC/sillicon one. But I have no permission to read related documents, even the datasheet. Yeah, it sounds like crazy. So I have to search public documents for understanding the inside mechanism of our own company's product, as I am a person love to do reasonable things...and I am also considering if there is a chance to pursure a Phd journey, hoping the way to figure out how the chip on my hand works also give me some hints about my life path selection.

The first paper come to my eye is dRMT: Disaggregated Programmable Switching, but it's not enough to catch the big picture, and after several searchs from names and references I found I need to start from Nick's OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks.

After several passes reading, I am trying to summary the very first paper. Of cause when I read I randomly reference to