Avaliação experimental de tecnologias SDN para implantação em redes de produção.

Abstract

Software Defined Networking is an emerging paradigm that proposes the separation of the control plan and the data plan, seeking to make the routing elements simpler, while the processing of the routing logic will be executed by an external element called controller. Due to this separation, several models of SDN controllers have been developed, so there are issues about performance, scalability, security and reliability issues that require answers to assist in choosing the right control platform, making it a difficult step. Therefore, evaluating benchmarking tools is something that must precede the deployment of an SDN Network. However, currently, the tools that have this purpose have several limitations, mainly because they do not have defined standards for experiments and thus leave gaps that make some important analyzes unfeasible. Based on this context, this work proposes a systematic evaluation of a set of two tools that have the purpose of evaluating SDN controllers. The evaluation will check their advantages and disadvantages and, later, based on recent methodologies defined for the evaluation of controllers, devolop a tool that contribute to the analysis of the control platforms, as well as support the choice of the correct model.