Performance Analysis of a Software Deﬁned Network Using Mininet Chaitra N. Shivayogimath and N.V. Uma Reddy Abstract Network is growing day by day. New devices are getting added into the network making it very dif ﬁcult for an IT administrator to conﬁgure the ACLs and the other network parameters in the devices. Flexibility and programmability are the key factors in the present day scenario. Software Deﬁned Networks (SDN) is the evolving network technology which provides the two factors mentioned. The latency in the packet delivery is less compared to the legacy Hardware Deﬁned Networks (HDN) and in turn the throughput is also high. The work done in this paper provides a Proof of Concept (POC) for the better throughput of SDN-based routing. Keywords SDN Á Mininet Á Throughput Á Latency Á HDN 1 Introduction An evolving networking technology coming into prominence is “Software Deﬁned Networking” (SDN) [1]. SDN separates the control plane and data plane in net- working devices such as routers and switches with the help of an API. All the routing decisions are done by a centralized device called controller and the for- warding done by a dumb device, such as a switch. A controller talks to the underlying network device, i.e. the forwarding switch via the “Southbound API”, this is a protocol which talks from switch to controller and vice versa. One such popular protocol is, OpenFlow protocol by the Open Network Foundation (ONF) [2]. This is a ﬂow-based protocol. The routing C.N. Shivayogimath (&) Á N.V. Uma Reddy Department of E&C, AMC Engineering College, Bangalore, India e-mail: chaishivyogi@gmail.com N.V. Uma Reddy e-mail: nvumareddy@gmail.com © Springer India 2016 S.S. Dash et al. (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 394, DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2656-7_35 391 Downloaded from http://iranpaper.ir http://www.etransteam.com