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Performance Study of a Software Defined Network Emulator

Authors:
Jose M. Jimenez
Oscar Romero
Albert Rego
Avinash Dilendra
Jaime Lloret

Keywords: SDN; OpenFlow; Mininet; MTU; virtualization; bandwidth; jitter.

Abstract:
Generally, network researchers use applications that allow them to emulate or simulate networks. It is desired to obtain very close results between the ones given in a virtual and the ones obtained when the real network hardware is implemented. In this paper, we compare the experimental results obtained when a virtual network is generated by using Mininet versus a real implemented network. We have compared them varying the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) on Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packets. Ethernet, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), and Wireless Local Area Network 802.11 (WLAN 802.11) MTUs have been used in our experimental tests.

Pages: 17 to 22

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: May 22, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3980

ISBN: 978-1-61208-475-6

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 22, 2016 to May 26, 2016