This tutorial provides instructions to get you started with SDN and OpenFlow. It walks through the steps on Mininet and Floodlight installation, and setting up a OpenFlow based SDN environment environment. After following the instruction, you should be ready to explore more SDN experiments! 

This tutorial is contributed by Abhishek Agarwal (Thanks Abhishek!)  Please click the link below to read the tutorial in his blog: 

Set up OpenFlow based SDN Environment with Mininet and Floodlight

The table of contents of the tutorial are:

• Install Mininet
• Install Floodlight
• Running Testbed
  • Start the controller
  • Start Mininet
• Using the Testbed
  • Interacting with Mininet and the virtual network
  • Interacting with Switches
  • Interacting with Floodlight controller