Survey of Software Components to Emulate OpenFlow Protocol as an SDN Implementation
Mohammed Basheer Al-Somaidai · American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications · 2014
Software Defined Networks (SDN) is the next wave in networking evolution. It may be considered as a revolution rather than an evolution since; many concepts of conventional network protocols are reshaped. OpenFlow protocol is the most widely deployed protocol in SDN. Emulation of OpenFlow based network projects facilitates the implementation of new ideas and driving the development of the protocol. In this paper, a summary of many software components related to OpenFlow is presented. Most of these software components were tested by the researchers in order to simplify the choice for other researchers considering the implementation of OpenFlow projects. These tests showed that there are differences in performance for the controllers that support OpenFlow 1.0 and OpenFlow 1.3. Furthermore, the tested controllers differs in the applications they support.