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