Controller Modules

Controller modules implement functions that are of common use to a majority of applications, such as:

• discovering and exposing network states and events (topology, devices, flows)
• enabling controller communication with network switches (i.e., the OpenFlow protocol)
• managing Floodlight modules and shared resources such as storage, threads, tests
• a web UI and debug server (Jython)

Below lists currently implemented controller modules: 

• FloodlightProvider (Dev)
• OFSwitchManager (Dev)
• DeviceManagerImpl (Dev)
• LinkDiscoveryManager (Dev)
• TopologyService (Dev)
• RestApiServer (Dev)
• ThreadPool (Dev)
• MemoryStorageSource (Dev)
• High Availability Support (Dev)
• Flow Cache (API only)
• Packet Streamer (Dev)