Performance Evaluation of SDN Controllers: Floodlight and Opendaylight

Abstract

Software Defined Network is new network architecture. One of its components is the controller, which is the intelligent part of SDN. Many controllers such as Floodlight, Open Daylight, Maestro, NOX, POX and many others are released. The question is which controller can perform better in which situations. Many works were done to compare controllers regarding architecture, efficiency and controllers’ features. In this paper, two of the most popular controllers, Floodlight and OpenDaylight are compared in terms of Network QoS parameters such as delay and loss in different topologies and network loads. This paper can help researchers to choose the best controller in different use cases such as clouds and multimedia. The results with 95% confidence interval show that OpenDaylight outperforms Floodlight in low loaded networks and also for tree topology in mid loaded networks in terms of latency. Floodlight can outperform OpenDaylight in heavy loaded networks for tree topology in terms of packet loss and in linear topology in terms of latency. There is no significant difference in performance of Floodlight and OpenDaylight controllers in other cases.

Improving the reliability of Byzantine fault‐tolerant distributed software‐defined networks

“…Moreover, it supports OpenFlow v1.3. 38 In this research, each Floodlight controller was implemented in a virtual machine, and the Mininet was installed in a separate virtual machine. Out-of-band communication was implemented by JGroups, which is a toolkit for reliable unicast or multicast communication written in the Java language.…”

Evaluating and Comparing the Performance of Using Multiple Controllers in Software Defined Networks

“…S. Rowshanrad et al,in [11] presented an evaluation and comparison of some Quality of Service (QoS) parameters of Floodlight and OpenDaylight controllers. The delay and packet loss of the controllers were measured in single, linear and tree topologies, and in different network loads using Mininet emulator.…”

Floodlight vs Onos Dalam Unjuk Kerja

“…Turull,D. Dkk, memfokuskan pada aplikasi virtualisasi jaringan, dan mengukur delay yang terjadi pada pesan ICMP, waktu transfer dari koneksi TCP, dan kerugian paket dalam lalu lintas UDP, berbagai penundaan antara switch dan kontroler [3]. Penelitian ini memfokuskan pada throughput dan latency dengan mensimulasi jumlah flow per detiknya dan mensimulasi jumlah switch yang terlibat pada kontroler floodlight dan ONOS.…”

“…Rowshanrad, S., et al, melakukan pengujian performa dari floodlight dan Opendayligh dengan mengukur performa kontroler bila dijalankan pada 3 topologi standar mininet yaitu single, linear, dan tree dengan jumlah switch dan host yang terlibat maksimal 8 (delapan) switch [3]. Sedangkan yang akan dilakukan pada penelitian ini adalah melibatkan sebanyak-banyaknya switch dan host dan mengukur kemampuan kontroler dalam menjalankan JIPI (Jurnal Ilmiah Penelitian dan Pembelajaran Informatika) Volume 04, Nomor 02, Desember 2019 : 111 -121 atau melakukan kontrol ke sejumlah perangkat tersebut dan yang diuji adalah kontroler floodlight dan ONOS.…”