SDN Mininet Emulator Benchmarking and Result Analysis
Muhamad Hasan, Hisham Dahshan, Essam Abdelwanees, Aly Elmoghazy
Abstract
SDN is a modern network architecture that decouples network control from data forwarding devices and support programming of the network. It simplifies the manipulation of network devices and rules, in other words controlling the network behavior. With this decoupling, network control can be achieved separately and centrally without affecting data forwarding devices. The whole network intelligence has been extracted from forwarding devices in the network to a centralized server. With the introduction of SDN, greater capabilities have been expected to be achieved, in addition to the big reduction of capital expenses in deploying network equipment and operational expenses for management and control. In this paper, testing scenarios with the aid of the Mininet emulator and Floodlight controller are presented to evaluate the performance of such an SDN simulation environment. Testing scenarios depend on throttling bandwidth to evaluate the performance of the emulator and the controller by monitoring the throughput in each test then compare the output results from each scenario.