FREEController: A Framework for Relative Efficiency Evaluation of Software-Defined Networking Controllers

Eduardo Klosowski, Adriano Fiorese

2019

Abstract

A Software-Defined Network (SDN) requires a controller that is responsible for defining how the network will behave, since it has the responsibility to install flow rules for forwarding the data streams through the network devices. Thus, it is necessary that the controller presents performance good enough to attend the network needs. However, with the diversity of existing controllers, some offering more facilities to the developer, while others offer higher performance, a doubt arises regarding which controller manages to attend the network demand, or how much performance can be bargained to get more facilities. To answer these questions, this work presents FREEController. It is an SDN controllers evaluation framework based on relative efficiency obtained by means the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) multicriteria decision-making method. This proposed framework takes into account several stages including the controllers’ performance evaluation, creating a performance database, and how to use these database to identify which controllers attend the network demand using the DEA method. Results comprising the proposed framework evaluation indicate the viability of the relative efficiency approach and its relation with the used controllers’ resources.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Klosowski E. and Fiorese A. (2019). FREEController: A Framework for Relative Efficiency Evaluation of Software-Defined Networking Controllers.In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-372-8, pages 349-360. DOI: 10.5220/0007761503490360

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis19,
author={Eduardo Klosowski and Adriano Fiorese},
title={FREEController: A Framework for Relative Efficiency Evaluation of Software-Defined Networking Controllers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2019},
pages={349-360},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007761503490360},
isbn={978-989-758-372-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - FREEController: A Framework for Relative Efficiency Evaluation of Software-Defined Networking Controllers
SN - 978-989-758-372-8
AU - Klosowski E.
AU - Fiorese A.
PY - 2019
SP - 349
EP - 360
DO - 10.5220/0007761503490360