Research Area: Software Defined Networks
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an architecture that decouples the routing intelligence from the forwarding functions, using an entity called "controller". It is paramount that the performance of the controller is thoroughly understood prior to its deployment. However, the rapid introduction of many new controllers in the research community makes it difficult to choose a suitable controller. This paper studies and evaluates the performance of several popular open source controllers such as ONOS, Ryu, Floodlight and OpenDayLight in terms of latency and throughput using an OpenFlow benchmarking tool called Cbench. Additionally, a feature-based comparison of the controllers is presented. These experimental tests provide a decision making guideline when selecting a controller.
Keywords:
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
OpenFlow
controller
Ryu
Floodlight
OpenDayLight
ONOS
Author(s) Name: Lusani Mamushiane; Albert Lysko; Sabelo Dlamini
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Conferrence name: 2018 Wireless Days (WD)
Publisher name: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WD.2018.8361694
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