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Support Multiple Auxiliary TCP/UDP Connections in SDN Simulations Based on ns-3

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WNS3 '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on ns-3

Pages 24 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/3067665.3067670

Published: 13 June 2017 Publication History

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As software-defined networking (SDN) grows beyond its original aim to simply separate the control and data network planes, it becomes useful both financially and analytically to provide adequate mechanisms for simulating this new paradigm. A number of simulation/emulation tools for modeling SDN, such as Mininet and ns-3, are already available. However, none of them supports multiple auxiliary connections in SDN simulation/emulation, which is one of the key features added in OpenFlow 1.3. In this paper, we extended the existing OFSWITCH13 framework to support multiple auxiliary connections in SDN simulations based on ns-3. This work allows multiple TCP/UDP connections to be built between a switch and a controller in the simulation. Furthermore, we performed case studies to investigate the impact of auxiliary connections on SDN performance, which is valuable for designing a scalable SDN network.

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Bai JBi JKuang PFan CZhou YZhang C(2018)NS4Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research10.1145/3185467.3185470(1-7)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3185467.3185470

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WNS3 '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on ns-3

June 2017

134 pages

ISBN:9781450352192

DOI:10.1145/3067665

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Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
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Zhang CYang HRiley GBlough D(2019)Queueing Analysis of Auxiliary-Connection-Enabled Switches for Software-Defined Networks2019 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)10.1109/ICCNC.2019.8685564(497-502)Online publication date: Feb-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2019.8685564
Bai JBi JKuang PFan CZhou YZhang C(2018)NS4Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research10.1145/3185467.3185470(1-7)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3185467.3185470

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