Open Networking Summit Europe 2019

The promise of SDN has always been applications that can communicate behaviors and needed resources with the SDN controller via a well defined API. While traditional methods to determine the needed behaviors continue to be important, the true promise of SDN is perhaps realized with the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The talk underscores why software defined networks need to be intelligent by being aware of runtime status of the network and dynamically come up with network policies according to analytics results. Abhijit will discuss previous efforts in this area with OpenDaylight as well as future use cases of a smart and intelligent SDN controller. He will also cover a few of the AI/ML/big data tools and techniques which could be used for SDN.