Survey of Software Components to Emulate OpenFlow Protocol as an SDN Implementation

Mohammed Basheer Al-Somaidai; Estabrak Bassam Yahya

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Survey of Software Components to Emulate OpenFlow Protocol as an SDN Implementation

Mohammed Basheer Al-Somaidai, Estabrak Bassam Yahya

Published in American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 9 April 2014 Accepted: 9 May 2014 Published: 16 December 2014

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Abstract

Software Defined Networks (SDN) is the next wave in networking evolution. It may be considered as a revolution rather than an evolution since; many concepts of conventional network protocols are reshaped. OpenFlow protocol is the most widely deployed protocol in SDN. Emulation of OpenFlow based network projects facilitates the implementation of new ideas and driving the development of the protocol. In this paper, a summary of many software components related to OpenFlow is presented. Most of these software components were tested by the researchers in order to simplify the choice for other researchers considering the implementation of OpenFlow projects. These tests showed that there are differences in performance for the controllers that support OpenFlow 1.0 and OpenFlow 1.3. Furthermore, the tested controllers differs in the applications they support.

Published in	American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajsea.20140306.12
Page(s)	74-82
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Software Defined Network, OpenFlow, Emulation, Mininet

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Mohammed Basheer Al-Somaidai

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq
Estabrak Bassam Yahya

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq

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