With the rise of remote and hybrid work arrangements, the need for secure connections and information transfer has never been higher. Even with company-issued devices, employees can still work from anywhere on any network, leaving themselves and the company vulnerable to cyberattacks. Serverless infrastructure is designed to provide functionality to a globally-distributed user base, which makes it a natural solution to managing a potentially globally-distributed workforce. In this paper, we propose a serverless software-defined networking (SDN) controller in C++ that implements a subset of the OpenFlow 1.0 specifications. We describe a software development kit (SDK) in C++ that will enable a user with minimal coding knowledge to create and customize their own SDN controllers and policies, freeing them from the limitations of a specific hardware configuration and enabling better overall performance.

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Creator

• Hilman, Zachary
• Yue, Grace

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 83646
• E-project-121522-195629

Keyword

• serverless
• OpenFlow
• SDN
• cloud computing
• networks
• C++

Advisor

• Shue, Craig A.

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-12-15

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Source

• E-project-121522-195629

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-01-12