SEED is a Shared Evaluation Environment for Software-Defined networking applications. SEED simplifies the process of evaluating SDN-applications by

• making SDN-applications (specifically the underlying controller platforms), simulators and scenarios interchangeable
• providing an experiment description with which these components are declared unambiguously
• providing a scenario description format which contains simulator agnostic information on topology and traffic.
• providing a unified frontend for all evaluations

By pooling these components, researchers can spend more of their time on the actual evaluation instead of having to study a specific simulator or creating representative scenarios (which are both highly error-prone tasks).

SEED depends on git, git-lfs, python 3 and docker which need to be installed beforehand. Installation of SEED is performed with three simple commands:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/KIT-Telematics/seed.git
$ cd seed
$ python3 setup.py install

After installing SEED, you can test SEED by executing this command:

$ seed --config -vv configs/config.mininet.datacenter.ryu.pbce.yml

It should print the setup and output log of the simulator and controllers.

A comprehensive manual is available here. It provides documentation on the seed command, the experiment and scenario description as well as controller integration.

If you used seed for your research, please consider citing our paper (BibTeX):

@inproceedings{mci/Dittebrandt2017,
author = {Dittebrandt, Addis and König, Michael and Neumeister, Felix},
booktitle = {INFORMATIK 2017},
doi = {10.18420/in2017_246},
editor = {Eibl, Maximilian and Gaedke, Martin},
interhash = {dbd44d8ad4de998f5e90073cf796a152},
intrahash = {a17d2d5007a0e7541e6994d28fa90d43},
isbn = {978-3-88579-669-5},
pages = { 2413-2423 },
publisher = {Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn},
title = {Towards a Shared Evaluation Environment for Software-defined Networking},
url = {https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/4021},
year = 2017
}