Abstract
Software Defined Networks (SDN) has attracted the researchers and industry due to their flexibility and programmability. SDN has been differentiated from traditional networks in terms of separation of the control plane and forwarding functions. The forwarding decisions are sent by the controller to switches and routers. The switches are responsible only for logical forwarding of the packets. Hence performance of any SDN network depends on the performance of the controller. Lot of SDN controllers are available. In this paper we have evaluated the performance of two well-known python base SDN controllers POX and RYU. Mininet is used as the simulation tool. The performance is evaluated for linear topology, tree topology and datacenter topology with varying scales. We have used D-ITG for performance evaluation. Iperf is also used for measuring the maximum available bandwidth. RYU controller performs better in terms of average delay, jitter, bitrate and throughput. The selection of the controller depends on the application requirements.
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Authors would like to thanks to the management of Shram Sadhana Bombay Trust’s College of Engineering & Technology, Bambhori, Jalgaon for providing the infrastructure for carrying out this research work.
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Kazi, N.M., Suralkar, S.R., Bhadade, U.S. (2021). Evaluating the Performance of POX and RYU SDN Controllers Using Mininet. In: Venugopal, K.R., Shenoy, P.D., Buyya, R., Patnaik, L.M., Iyengar, S.S. (eds) Data Science and Computational Intelligence. ICInPro 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1483. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91244-4_15
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