Towards visual programming abstractions in Software‐Defined Networking

Abstract

Since Software‐Defined Networking (SDN) emerged, the research community and industry have developed numerous projects and fostered novel use cases. However, engineers now need to learn how to program the control and data planes, which might slow down technology acceptance. To accelerate it, visual programming abstractions facilitate the incorporation of SDN technologies and assist in creating new applications. So far, very little effort has been made in this field. This letter presents an early‐stage SDN visual abstraction initiative based on the Scratch/Blockly programming framework, initially aimed at kids. The objective is to illustrate how this work could be extended to provide value‐added resources for network programming.