Hybrid Software Defined Networking Controller

Kosala Perera, Udesh Gunarathne, Binal Chathuranga, Chamika Ramanayake, Ajith Pasqual

2017

Abstract

There exists some common bottlenecks among the many available Software Defined Networking (SDN) controllers. Of these, the current analysis uses the Floodlight software controller to identify bottlenecks. The analysis has implemented these bottlenecks in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in order to assess its feasibility. Thereafter, a Hybrid SDN controller has been developed. Generally Hybrid SDN refers to a networking approach where traditional networking and SDN protocols are used and operated in the same environment. Hybrid in this paper context refers to a controller which is developed both on software and hardware platforms in order to achieve a higher scalability which is a current issue existing in software controller, and thereby overcoming the identified bottlenecks. The analysis has offloaded computational intensive models to an FPGA and tested for performance. These performance figures have then been compared against the performance figures as of a stand-alone software controller.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Perera K., Gunarathne U., Chathuranga B., Ramanayake C. and Pasqual A. (2017). Hybrid Software Defined Networking Controller . In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 3: DCNET, (ICETE 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-256-1, pages 77-84. DOI: 10.5220/0006423800770084

in Bibtex Style

@conference{dcnet17,
author={Kosala Perera and Udesh Gunarathne and Binal Chathuranga and Chamika Ramanayake and Ajith Pasqual},
title={Hybrid Software Defined Networking Controller},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 3: DCNET, (ICETE 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={77-84},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006423800770084},
isbn={978-989-758-256-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 3: DCNET, (ICETE 2017)
TI - Hybrid Software Defined Networking Controller
SN - 978-989-758-256-1
AU - Perera K.
AU - Gunarathne U.
AU - Chathuranga B.
AU - Ramanayake C.
AU - Pasqual A.
PY - 2017
SP - 77
EP - 84
DO - 10.5220/0006423800770084