Paper Info
Title
hvbench: An open and scalable SDN network hypervisor benchmark
Abstract
Software-defined networking (SDN) introduces a split between the forwarding plane and the control plane of modern network equipment. Furthermore, OpenFlow, as an open interface for SDN, fosters the development of logically centralized network operation systems (NOS). To allow multiple network operation systems accessing the same network, there is the concept of SDN hypervisors. Little is known about the performance characteristics of SDN hypervisors. Furthermore, there is a lack of scalable and realistic hypervisor benchmark tools capable of emulating dynamic load scenarios. In this paper, we present an extensible and distributed SDN hypervisor benchmarking framework based on flexible statistical request generators. The framework can be scaled out horizontally to multiple compute nodes that are centrally controlled and reconfigured at runtime. We present preliminary measurements of the CPU resource consumption of a hypervisor in a virtual environment. The results show that the performance characteristics of the hypervisor are different for dynamic load scenarios compared to static benchmarks. Furthermore, the results show that for the same overall request rate, multiple NOS increase the CPU load considerable compared to a single NOS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/NETSOFT.2016.7502475
2016 IEEE NetSoft Conference and Workshops (NetSoft)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
hvbench,scalable SDN network hypervisor benchmark,software-defined networking,forwarding plane,control plane,modern network equipment,OpenFlow,open interface,network operation systems,multiple NOS,multiple network operation systems,distributed SDN hypervisor benchmarking framework,flexible statistical request generators,CPU resource consumption
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Sieber1283.13
Andreas Blenk221523.28
Arsany Basta324116.20
W. Kellerer424316.42