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Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging network architecture that has been recently proposed to address the limitations of traditional networks. SDN consists in decoupling the forwarding plane and the control plane and moving this latter to a remote controller, which manages traffic routing rules in a centralized and dynamic fashion. Thus, the controller plays a crucial role in network management operations. A large diversity of open-source controllers, with different features, has been proposed for both industrial and research purposes. Extensive efforts are being deployed to provide a comparative study between available open-source controllers through performance evaluation of underlying SDN networks. In this paper, we provide an overarching performance evaluation of two popular SDN controllers namely, POX and OpenDayLight. Based on Mininet emulator, we assess the most relevant QoS parameters between end nodes in SDN networks namely, throughput, round trip time, jitter and packet loss. Moreover, we compare the behavior of the considered controllers within different network topologies such as, single, tree, linear and custom topologies.
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POX Wiki. https://openflow.stanford.edu/display/ONL/POX+Wiki.html
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Hassen, H., Meherzi, S., Belghith, S. (2021). Performance Analysis of POX and OpenDayLight Controllers Based on QoS Parameters. In: Barolli, L., Woungang, I., Enokido, T. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75075-6_61
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