Paper Info
Title
Performance evaluation of OpenFlow data planes
Abstract
The decoupling of data and control planes of network switches is the main characteristic of Software Defined Networks. The OpenFlow (OF) protocol implements this concept and it is found today in various off-the-shelf equipment. Despite being widely employed in industry and research there is no systematic evaluation of OF data plane performance in the literature. In this paper we evaluate the performance and maturity of the main features of OF 1.0 on nine hardware and software switches. Results show that the performance varies significantly among implementations. For instance, packet delays vary by one order of magnitude among the evaluated switches, while the packet size does not impact the performance of OF switches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.23919/INM.2017.7987314
2017 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
OpenFlow data planes,software defined networks,OpenFlow protocol,OF switches
Forwarding plane,Computer science,Decoupling (cosmology),Network packet,Computer network,Network switch,OpenFlow,Software,Control system,Software-defined networking,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-5658-3
2
0.37
References 
Authors
9
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leonardo C. Costa120.37
Alex Borges Vieira210421.82
Erik de Britto e Silva341.77
Daniel F. Macedo433026.30
Geraldo Gomes520.37
Luiz Henrique A. Correia6212.97
Luiz Filipe M. Vieira741342.43