TY - GEN
T1 - Metrics and measurement tools in OpenFlow and the OFELIA testbed
AU - Körner, Marc
AU - Almus, Herbert
AU - Woesner, Hagen
AU - Jungel, Tobias
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - OpenFlow is a recent standard that defines the interaction between a network element (switch, router) and an externalized control element (the controller). This article introduces the metrics of interest when developing hardware and software for OpenFlow and shows how these are made available in OFELIA, a Pan-European research testbed for software-defined networks. OFELIA provides software tools like OFLOPS and cbench as well as access to specific test hardware. A section of the article describes how this hardware is integrated into the control framework of OFELIA and how it can be used by external researchers. Some measurement results recently obtained with the use of OFELIA provide an example of experiments that are done to further optimize SDN equipment and controllers.
AB - OpenFlow is a recent standard that defines the interaction between a network element (switch, router) and an externalized control element (the controller). This article introduces the metrics of interest when developing hardware and software for OpenFlow and shows how these are made available in OFELIA, a Pan-European research testbed for software-defined networks. OFELIA provides software tools like OFLOPS and cbench as well as access to specific test hardware. A section of the article describes how this hardware is integrated into the control framework of OFELIA and how it can be used by external researchers. Some measurement results recently obtained with the use of OFELIA provide an example of experiments that are done to further optimize SDN equipment and controllers.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885775819&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-41296-7_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-41296-7_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885775819
SN - 9783642412950
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 127
EP - 138
BT - Measurement Methodology and Tools - First European Workshop, FP7 FIRE/EULER Project, Revised and Extended Papers
T2 - 1st European Workshop on Measurement Methodology and Tools, FP7 FIRE/EULER Project
Y2 - 9 May 2012 through 9 May 2012
ER -