Welcome to Genius

Introduction

Genius project provides Generic Network Interfaces, Utilities & Services. Any ODL application can use these to achieve interference-free co-existence with other applications using Genius. In the the first phase (ODL-Boron time frame), Genius would provide following modules --

• Modules providing a common view of Network interfaces for different services
  • Interface (logical port) Manager
    • Allows bindings/registration of multiple services to logical ports/interfaces
    • Ability to plugin different types of southbound protocol renderers
  • Overlay Tunnel Manager
    • Creates and maintains overlay tunnels between configured TEPs
• Modules providing commonly used functions as shared services to avoid duplication of code and waste of resources.
  • Aliveness Monitor
    • Provides tunnel/nexthop aliveness monitoring services
  • ID Manager
    • Generates persistent unique integer IDs
  • MD-SAL Utils
    • Provides common generic APIs for interaction with MD-SAL