On Controller Performance in Software-Defined Networks

By Amin Tootoonchian, Sergey Gorbunov, Yashar Ganjali, Martín Casado, Rob Sherwood. USENIX conference on Hot topics in management of internet, cloud, and enterprise networks and services, 2012

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Software-Defined Network Function Virtualization: A Survey (2015, background): “The SDN controller [43], [44], [52], [53] and the NFV orchestration system compose the logical control module.”
Distributed SDN Control: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges (2018, background): “Improved versions of NOX have been consequently developed by the same community (Nicira Networks) such as NOX-MT [55] for better performance and POX [56] for a more developer-friendly environment.”
A Survey and a Layered Taxonomy of Software-Defined Networking (2014, background): “Nox-MT [46], Maestro [48] and Beacon [49] are examples of such controllers.”
On the Capacitated Controller Placement Problem in Software Defined Networks (2014, background): “However, the load of processing PACKET_IN events is generally regarded as the most significant part of the total load [2], [6].”
Software-defined networking (SDN): a survey (2016, methodology): “…cascading failures of controllers will likely occur Disclosing failure threat to reliability of SDN networks and proposing a model of these failures to prevent them Software-defined networking: a survey K. Benzekki, A. El Fergougui and A. Elbelrhiti Elalaoui existing SDN controllers [43,98,99].”
A roadmap for traffic engineering in SDN-OpenFlow networks (2014, methodology): “In the experiment, NOX-MT control platform is based on an 8 core server machine, which handles about 1:8 million rps with an average response time around 2 ms. Beacon and Maestro have a similar maximum throughput achieved about 0:5 and 0:4 million rps respectively.”
Security in Software Defined Networks: A Survey (2015, unknown): “Increasing the number of active OpenFlow switches managed by a single controller increases the controller response time for setting the ﬂow rules, since it involves an increased number of ﬂow setup requests [155].”
On scalability of software-defined networking (2013, unknown): “Tootoonchian et al. [4] showed that simple modifications to the NOX controller boosts its performance by an order of magnitude on a single core.”
Advanced study of SDN/OpenFlow controllers (2013, background): “The latest evaluation of SDN/OpenFlow controllers, published in 2012 [7], covered a limited number of controllers and focused on controller performance only.”
Software defined networking: State of the art and research challenges (2014, unknown): “Early benchmarks suggested that controller performance can be increased considerably by well-known optimization techniques such as I/O batching [60].”
A Survey on Software-Defined Network and OpenFlow: From Concept to Implementation (2014, methodology): “[84] implements a Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) based runtime system.”