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As a result of the development of new generation networks, which include many heterogeneous services and devices, it was necessary to find a technology capable of covering the diversity that occurred. Virtual Software Defined Network (vSDN) is one of the most important technologies in the field of networking. It is concerned with optimizing the use of network infrastructure by creating virtual networks (network slicing) within the same physical network, considering the isolation of each network from the other. This paper uses mininet network emulation to configure network infrastructure and FlowVisor hypervisor to virtualize infrastructure and enable multiple SDN controllers. It also presents the implementation of three scenarios for implementing network slicing and comparing them. The results show that the greater the number of tenants and dividing the network into more than two slices, the performance approaches and may be equal to the network performance without using FlowVisor, and this leads to controlling the delay rate and the data transfer rate.
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Mahdi, S.S., Abdullah, A.A. (2023). Implementation of Network Slicing for Multi-controller Environment Based on FlowVisor. In: Al-Bakry, A.M., et al. New Trends in Information and Communications Technology Applications. NTICT 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35442-7_10
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