ALTO: Lithium: Release Notes

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Major Features

Lithium release of ALTO project delivers:

  • A northbound implementation providing RFC 7285 format map services.

  • A simple implementation of endpoint cost map service.

  • Automatic network map/cost map generation based on l2switch network state.

  • Supports for management of network map, cost map and endpoint property map.

Target Environment

For Execution

  • Require Java 7 compliant runtime environment.

  • Follow the OpenDaylight Lithium installation and user guide documentation to install OpenDaylight Lithium with ALTO features.

For Development

  • Require Java 7 compliant runtime environment, Maven version 3.1.1 or above.

  • Follow the OpenDaylight Lithium installation and user guide documentation to install OpenDaylight Lithium with ALTO features.

Known Issues and Limitations

  • The implementation of filtered network/cost map services is not complete.

  • There is no AAA protection of ALTO information. Hence, all ALTO services will be public.

  • A common, automatic network map generation algorithm design is desired.