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Evaluation and comparison of OpenDayLight and open networking operating system in software-defined networking

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Software-defined networking (SDN) is a new way of transforming networks. It works on the principle of separating the infrastructure plane from the control plane. In the control plane, the centralized SDN controller acts as a brain of the network. Selecting the best SDN controller for the network is one of the most crucial tasks. In this paper, the experimental comparison between the two most powerful and popularly known SDN controllers on which many other SDN controllers are laid down their foundations i.e. OpenDayLight (ODL) and open networking operating system (ONOS) is performed. The experimentation is carried out on the Mininet emulation tool. Real-time packets are captured and analyzed using Wireshark. The results of the comparison concluded that the performance of the ODL controller is better than the ONOS in terms of burst rate, throughput, Round Trip Time (RTT) and bandwidth.

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Badotra, S., Panda, S.N. Evaluation and comparison of OpenDayLight and open networking operating system in software-defined networking. Cluster Comput 23, 1281–1291 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-019-02996-0

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