Performance analysis for SDN POX and open daylight controller using network emulator Mininet under DDoS attack
Sameer Ali, Muhammad Reazul Haque, Kashif Nisar, Ramani Kannan, Tanveer Ahmed Khan, Khalil-Ur-Rehman Shaikh, Basit Ali · 2022
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a modern networking technology which aims to decouple the control logic from the underlying networking devices. In SDN, network performance can be impaired due to failure of a single controller and will cause suspension in network components and disruption in end-user services. There are many vulnerabilities to a single controller in SDN network taking into account the cyber-attacks especially Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Therefore, as a result, network performance and reliability will be affected. This chapter analyzes and investigates on the performance of control-plane architecture using POX and Open Daylight Open Flow-based SDN controllers under DDoS attacks. The objective is to maximize the resiliency of control-plane structure in SDN. There are different SDN network scenarios will take place in emulation to observe the performance of SDN controllers under DDoS attack. Legitimate and attack traffic has been generated using the tree topology. The traffic rate has been captured in S-Flow-RT analytics. Simulations are performed using MININET SDN network emulator and Open Flow Pox and Open Daylight controllers are used in a hypervisor environment.