Oct 28, 2016

OpenFlow - Meter Table

A meter table allows OpenFlow to create a simple Quality of Service mechanism that measures the rate of a flow and then imposes a specified rate limit. Each entry on the meter represent a meter.

The fields within the meter entry are as follows:

  • Meter Identifier is a 32-bit unsigned integer identifying meter
  • Meter Bands is an unordered list of meter bands, each of which specifies a rate and an instruction for processing a packet. 
  • Counters are incremented whenever a meter process a packet


A meter band consists of the following fields:
  • Band Type, how a packet is to be processed.
  • Rate, the lowest rate at which the meter band can apply
  • Burst, defines the granularity of the meter band
  • Counter, are incremented when a packet is processed by the band
  • Type Specific Arguments, are used with some band types to define additional instructions

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