EMULATION OF THE POX CONTROLLER AS A LOAD BALANCER

Abstract- The servers’ nature of having bottleneck situations makes the load balancing one of the essential services in the networks, particularly with the users’ increasing load. This current paper investigates the technique of load-balancing related to Software-Defined Network (SDN). Due to the nature of the paper, there shall be processes of analysis and simulation to the software-defined network of the two servers. The following parts constitute two servers, four clients, a pox controller, and an open virtual switch. To have the proposed topology connected with the pox controller, there shall be the utilization of the OpenFlow protocol. The results demonstrate that the use of the technique of load balancing assists in equally distributing the requests among the servers.

Analisis Performansi Routing OSPF menggunakan RYU Controller dan POX Controller pada Software Defined Networking

Software Defined Networking (SDN) adalah teknologi baru yang dikembangkan untuk mengatasi masalah kompleksitas konfigurasi jaringan dengan pengelolaan lebih terpusat karena memisahkan antara control plane dan data plane. Penelitian ini menganalisis perbandingan performansi SDN menggunakan ryu controller dan pox controller. Protocol yang digunakan adalah protocol TCP dan UDP sedangkan routingnya menggunakan OSPF. Penerapan algoritma dijkstra dari perutean OSPF ke topologi fat tree pada SDN akan diukur unjuk kerjanya berdasarkan parameter Quality of Service yaitu delay, jitter, dan packet loss pada skenario tanpa background traffic. Transmisi data menggunakan traffic protocol TCP dengan RYU controller dan protokol UDP lebih baik karena memiliki delay sebesar 49.44% dan delay yang lebih stabil sebesar 0.01 %. Jitter yang dihasilkan adalah 27.59% lebih baik daripada POX controller sebesar 72.41% dan untuk protokol UDP menggunakan POX controller 99.97% sedangkan traffic protocol UDP menggunakan RYU controller lebih baik sebesar 0.03%. Packet loss dari kedua controller didapatkan hasil protokol TCP sangat bagus sebesar 0% sedangkan protokol UDP menggunakan POX controller 83.13%, menggunakan RYU controller 16.87%.

Managing Internet of Things based traffic using Software Defined Networking

The current internet architecture cannot manage the massive data volumes produced by the smart IoT-based healthcare systems. Very recently, the idea of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has surfaced to resolve the issues related to networking. The incorporation of SDN technology in IoT-based healthcare systems can possibly solve the existing quality of service and data management issues. Furthermore, the IoT-based healthcare system can attain enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) through the employment of such schemes that use shortest-path routing algorithms and offer higher bandwidth to lesser delay paths as per the QoS requirements. In this study, the SDN technology is integrated with IoT-based healthcare systems, and the delay is reduced for delay-sensitive applications by using the Bellman-Ford algorithm. The proposed scheme is deployed using the POX controller and can effectively handle the existing QoS issues in the IoT healthcare systems. The simulation results of the proposed scheme show a clear drop in delay values in comparison to the benchmark scheme.

Implementing a Software Load Balancer with a Genetic Algorithm

In the context of network evolution, concepts like Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) appeared on the market. Network virtualization permits the implementation of routers, switches and load balancers in software and separation of control plane and data plane brings easier configuration, implementation and scalability. The monolithic design of traditional network devices can be changed by implementing new algorithms which will improve the overall system performance. An example is our Software Load Balancer with a Genetic Algorithm. The code written in Python is functional through the POX Controller and the advantages of evolutionary algorithms make this implementation an innovative solution for dynamically modified topologies.

Software Defined Networks using Mininet

A software defined network (SDN) is combined with centralized management by providing separation of the network, data and control planes. Different cloud computing environments, enterprise data centers and service providers are using this important feature. By implementing software defined data centers. Here in this paper we have used Mininet to demonstrate the applicability of SDN for different scalability. We study the performance of two SDN controllers – RYU and POX, that are implemented in Python using Mininet and D-ITG, Distributed Internet Traffic Generator. During this study we have used two network topologies, single and linear. The performance parameters used are maximum delay, average jitter, average bitrate. Experimental results demonstrated that the linear topology with RYU controller performs better as compared to single topology with POX controller for different network sizes