Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey

peer reviewedThe Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption, traditional IP networks are complex and very hard to manage. It is both difficult to configure the network according to predefined policies, and to reconfigure it to respond to faults, load, and changes. To make matters even more difficult, current networks are also vertically integrated: the control and data planes are bundled together. Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm that promises to change this state of affairs, by breaking vertical integration, separating the network's control logic from the underlying routers and switches, promoting (logical) centralization of network control, and introducing the ability to program the network. The separation of concerns, introduced between the definition of network policies, their implementation in switching hardware, and the forwarding of traffic, is key to the desired flexibility: by breaking the network control problem into tractable pieces, SDN makes it easier to create and introduce new abstractions in networking, simplifying network management and facilitating network evolution. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on SDN. We start by introducing the motivation for SDN, explain its main concepts and how it differs from traditional networking, its roots, and the standardization activities regarding this novel paradigm. Next, we present the key building blocks of an SDN infrastructure using a bottom-up, layered approach. We provide an in-depth analysis of the hardware infrastructure, southbound and northbound application programming interfaces (APIs), network virtualization layers, network operating systems (SDN controllers), network programming languages, and network applications. We also look at cross-layer problems such as debugging and troubleshooting. In an effort to anticipate the future evolution of this - ew paradigm, we discuss the main ongoing research efforts and challenges of SDN. In particular, we address the design of switches and control platforms—with a focus on aspects such as resiliency, scalability, performance, security, and dependability—as well as new opportunities for carrier transport networks and cloud providers. Last but not least, we analyze the position of SDN as a key enabler of a software-defined environment

Quality of Service in Software Defined Networking

Software Defined Networking SDN promises to provide a powerful way to introduce Quality of Service QoS concepts in today s communication networks SDN programmatically modifies the functionality and behavior of network devices using single high level program Software Defined Networking SDN instantiation OpenFlow has been designed according to these properties The realization of Quality of Service QoS concepts becomes possible in a flexible and dynamic manner with SDN This paper focuses on the existing architectures parameter such as response time switch capacity and bandwidth isolation that is calculated here Although concepts of QoS are well researched they were not realized in communication networks due to high implementation complexity and realization costs OpenFlow as the best-known SDN standard so far defines a standard protocol for network control These observations of switch variety may provide SDN application developer s insights when realizing QoS concepts in an SDN-based networ

Study of Multimedia Delivery over Software Defined Networks

[EN] Software Defined Networks (SDN) have become a new way to make dynamic topologies. They have great potential in both the creation and development of new network protocols and the inclusion of distributed artificial intelligence in the network. There are few emulators, like Mininet, that allow emulating a SDN in a single personal computer, but there is lack of works showing its performance and how it performs compared with real cases. This paper shows a performance comparison between Mininet and a real network when multimedia streams are being delivered. We are going to compare them in terms of consumed bandwidth (throughput), delay and jitter. Our study shows that there are some important differences when these parameters are compared. We hope that this research will be the basis to show the difference with real deployments when Mininet is used.This work has been supported by the “Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad”, through the “Convocatoria 2014. Proyectos I+D - Programa Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia” in the “Subprograma Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento”, project TIN2014-57991-C3-1-P and the “programa para la Formación de Personal Investigador – (FPI-2015-S2-884)” by the“Universitat Politècnica de València”.Jimenez, JM.; Romero Martínez, JO.; Rego, A.; Dilendra, A.; Lloret, J. (2015). Study of Multimedia Delivery over Software Defined Networks. Network Protocols and Algorithms. 7(4):37-62. https://doi.org/10.5296/npa.v7i4.8794S37627

FS-OpenSecurity : A taxonomic modeling of security threats in SDN for future sustainable computing

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SDN-Based Approach to Evaluate the Best Controller: Internal Controller NOX and External Controllers POX, ONOS, RYU

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a rising technique to deal with replace patrimony network (coupled hardware and software program) control and administration by separating the control plane (software program) from the information plane (hardware). It gives adaptability to the engineers by influencing the focal control to plane straightforwardly programmable. Some new difficulties, for example, single purpose of disappointment, may be experienced because of the original control plane. SDN concentrated on flexibility where the security of the system was not essentially considered. It promises to give a potential method to present Quality of Service (QoS) ideas in the present correspondence networks. SDN automatically changes the behavior and functionality of system devices utilizing a single state program. Its immediate OpenFlow is planned by these properties. The affirmation of Quality of Service (QoS) thoughts winds up possible in a versatile and dynamic path with SDN. It gives a couple of favorable circumstances including, organization and framework versatility, improved exercises and tip-top performances. This research work will concentrate on the Quality of Service (QoS) like delay, response time, throughput, and other execution assessing parameters of our proposed arrange design using internal controller, e.g., Network Operating System (NOX) and external controller, e.g., Pythonic Network Operating System (POX), Open Network Operating System (ONOS) and RYU. Regardless of the way that thoughts of QoS, they did not comprehend the correspondence systems with high utilization, diverse quality and acknowledgment costs. It will focus on the outside controller and inner controller execution in the proposed architecture. These perceptions of switch diversity may give SDN application engineer's bits of knowledge while acknowledging QoS ideas in an SDN-based system

High performance network function virtualization for user-oriented services

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm proposes to transform those network functions today running on dedicated and often closed appliances (e.g., firewall, wan accelerator) into pure software images, called Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), which can be consolidated and executed on high-volume standard servers. In this context, this dissertation focuses on the possibility of enabling each single end user (and not only network operators) to set up network services by means of NFV, allowing him to custoimize the set of services that are active on his Internet connection. This goal mainly requires to address flexibility and performance issues. Regarding to the former, it is important: (i) to support services including both network (e.g., firewall) and cloud (e.g., storage server) applications; (ii) to allow the user to define the service with an intuitive and high-level abstraction, hiding infrastructure-layer details. Instead, with respect to performance, multiple software-based services operating on the user's traffic should not introduce penalties in the user’s Internet experience. This dissertation solves the above issues by proposing a number of improvements in the context of Network Function Virtualization, both in terms of high level models and architectures to define and instantiate network services, and in terms of mechanisms to efficiently interconnect VNFs. Experimental results demonstrate that the goal of allowing end users to deploy services operating on their own traffic is feasible without impacting the Internet experience

OpenDaylight vs. Floodlight: Comparative Analysis of a Load Balancing Algorithm for Software Defined Networking

This paper presents the proposal of a load balancing algorithm implemented in two of the most popular controllers for Software Defined Networks (SDN): OpenDaylight and Floodlight. A comparative study in terms of the available bandwidth and delay time of the packet forwarding was performed by means of simulation modeling in a base network in which a shortest path algorithm was implemented as well. The results show that the proposed load balancing algorithm improves significantly the performance of a SDN in terms of the offered QoS of a OpenDaylight based controller. The effect of the proposed load balancing algorithm in the Floodlight controller shows a smaller impact mainly on the bandwidth allocation due to its in-build modules that by default perform specific routing and forwarding operations efficiently according to the traffic demand