Emulating Software Defined Network Using Mininet and OpenDaylight Controller Hosted on Amazon Web Services Cloud Platform to Demonstrate a Realistic Programmable Network.

EasyChair Preprint no. 685

Abstract

In this paper, a Software Defined Network was created in Mininet using python script. An external interface was added to enable communication with the network outside of Mininet. The amazon web services elastic computing cloud was used to host an OpenDaylight controller. This controller is used as a control plane device for the switch within Mininet. In order to test the network, a webserver hosted on the Emulated Virtual Environment – Next Generation (EVE-NG) software is connected to Mininet. EVE-NG is the Emulated Virtual Environment for networking. It provides tools to be able to model virtual devices and interconnect them with other virtual or physical devices. The OpenDaylight controller was able to create the flows to facilitate communication between the hosts in Mininet and the webserver in the real-life network.

Keyphrases: Amazon AWS, Cloud networking, Mininet, OpenDaylight, SDN

@Booklet{EasyChair:685,
  author = {Lindinkosi Zulu and Kingsley A. Ogudo and Patrice Umenne},
  title = {Emulating Software Defined Network Using Mininet and OpenDaylight Controller Hosted on Amazon Web Services Cloud Platform to Demonstrate a Realistic Programmable Network.},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 685},

  year = {EasyChair, 2018}}