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Software-defined network (SDN) is an emerging network architecture that can be adapted as a building block for cloud-enabled data centers. SDN decouples the traditional network in Data Plane (collection of forwarding devices or OpenFlow-enabled switches) and Control Plane (collection of one or more controllers), which communicates with each other using OpenFlow protocol. Proper installation of SDN necessitates the performance test of OpenFlow-enabled switches and controllers. Efficiency, reliability, and scalability are few parameters that should be considered to calculate the efficiency of an OpenFlow-based SDN. An analytical model of the OpenFlow-based network is suggested in this paper. Our proposed model is based on queueing theory and exponential models. The average packet arrival rate of a controller and maximum waiting time for an OpenFlow-enabled switch to get a PACKET_OUT message are taken as parameters to define our approach.
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Sarkar, C., Setua, S.K. (2018). Analytical Model for OpenFlow-Based Software-Defined Network. In: Pattnaik, P., Rautaray, S., Das, H., Nayak, J. (eds) Progress in Computing, Analytics and Networking. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 710. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7871-2_56
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