CONTROLADOR ONOS PARA UNA RED SDN | Guías, Proyectos, Investigaciones de Redes de Computadoras

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT) Vol 10, No 5, October 2018

DOI: 10.5121/ijcsit.2018.10503 21

IMULATION

OFTWARE

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ETWORK

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ININET

Antonio Cortes

Department of Computer Engineering, University of Panama, Panama City, Panama

BSTRACT

With the emergence of recent te chnologies in the field of computer network, traditional infrastructure in t he

field of networks have become obsolete and incompatible with respect to the new architectures of open

networks that emerge with force. This is how software-defined netw orks emerge by enabling cloud

computing ecosystem, enterprise data centers, and telecommunications service providers. The major

contribution of this paper is the simulation of an ecosystem based on a software defined network by making

use of certain types of networks topologies and using the virtualization of the open network operating

system (ONOS) and Mininet as a network em ulator.

EYWORDS

Computer Network, Software-defined Networks, Network Topologies, Simulation, Open Network Operating

System.

NTRODUCTION

The infrastructure of the traditional networks was developed and implemented in such a way the

flow control and the routing oversaw the devices of the network, thus allowing static structure [3],

hierarchical and dependent on the network architecture. This makes the network a complex

scenario, because there is to accommodate the structure of the network to the needs of users,

taking into consideration the policies of a network [1] and the growth of these, since they are

problems those who face these designs.

Currently, with the emergence of social networks, smart devices and cloud computing, the

various network topologies that make up these infrastructures tend to become saturated and

consume a large bandwidth due to the electronic components of these innovative technologies. In

turn, the benefits of cloud computing and virtual storage are being limited by networks since the

implementation of new networks prevents them from meeting the new needs demanded by them

and demands from the operators’ market. In turn, the above gives rise to the emergence of a new

network model that improves the capabilities in these networks called Software Defined

Networks (SDN) [2].

In this way, Software Defined Networks are a network design architecture in which the control

layer and the data layer within a network are separated. It separates the hardware management

software from the network and transfers the control to other devices called controllers that

convert the data traffic and control the network into a centralized service [4]. At the same time,

the emergence of these networks is to cover a need related to the deficiencies of current networks

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SIMULATION OF SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS

WITH OPEN NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM AND

MININET

Antonio Cortes

Department of Computer Engineering, University of Panama, Panama City, Panama

ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS

1. INTRODUCTION

The infrastructure of the traditional networks was developed and implemented in such a way the

flow control and the routing oversaw the devices of the network, thus allowing static structure [3],

hierarchical and dependent on the network architecture. This makes the network a complex

scenario, because there is to accommodate the structure of the network to the needs of users,

taking into consideration the policies of a network [1] and the growth of these, since they are

problems those who face these designs.

Currently, with the emergence of social networks, smart devices and cloud computing, the

various network topologies that make up these infrastructures tend to become saturated and

consume a large bandwidth due to the electronic components of these innovative technologies. In

turn, the benefits of cloud computing and virtual storage are being limited by networks since the

implementation of new networks prevents them from meeting the new needs demanded by them

and demands from the operators’ market. In turn, the above gives rise to the emergence of a new

network model that improves the capabilities in these networks called Software Defined

Networks (SDN) [2].

In this way, Software Defined Networks are a network design architecture in which the control

layer and the data layer within a network are separated. It separates the hardware management

software from the network and transfers the control to other devices called controllers that

convert the data traffic and control the network into a centralized service [4]. At the same time,

the emergence of these networks is to cover a need related to the deficiencies of current networks

because, by reducing the hardware necessary for assembly, facilitates the reuse of hardware by

facilitating the management of network control elements and makes it simpler in its configuration

process and reduces management time for administrators, speeding up the deployment of

applications, services and infrastructures.

Therefore, SND networks allow to ensure that network engineers and administrators respond

quickly to changes in business by centralizing the control console, by improving the services on

the network by making them more dynamic, economical and scalable avoiding management at a

low level. Similarly, SDN networks are composed of three essential parts. On the one hand, we

have the controller that oversees managing the network and telling the rest of the devices how to

handle the traffic on the network. The Southbound APIs is a software like the OpenFlow protocol,

responsible for managing the communication between the controller and the devices. While the

Northbound APIs is responsible for establishing communication with applications and business

logic. In this way, for a network to be functional it is required that the devices of this have

incorporated a firmware with OpenFlow or another similar protocol. This means that SDN

network flexibly manage the devices through the controller, which is responsible for recognizing

the topology of the network, thus enabling better management of traffic loads in a flexible and

efficient manner, giving priority to processes, applications and services.

In this paper, we have considered the use of the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) and

the Mininet network emulator to be able to simulate the Software Defined Network (SDN)

ecosystem and their respective network topologies. It makes use of a graphical interface for the

virtual machine VirtualBox of Oracle, version 5.2.8 r121009 (Qt 5.6.2) in which ONOS is

installed with its respective Mininet emulator, the OpenFlow controller and the Ubuntu Operating

System 16.0.4.3.

The organization of this paper is as follows. In Section 2. Methods and Materials refers to the

inputs used in the preparation of this paper. In turn, Section 3. Results and Discussion, the

analysis of SDN is illustrated through ONOS and Mininet simulation tool. Section 4. Explains the

final considerations and details the references used in this paper.

A systemic process is carried out that allows the ONOS, Mininet and revision of the

documentations from the various positions proposed by each one of the different authors.

2.1. OPEN NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM (ONOS)

The Open Network Operating System is an open source distributed SDN control platform,

developed by the Open Networking Lab (ON, Lab) [5], and sponsored by some of the leading

companies and academic institutions. In comparison with Open-DayLight [6], the ONOS Project

is specifically oriented to ISP (Internet Service Provider) networks, facilitating high availability

and scalability, due to its distributed architecture. The identification of the network topologies, as

well as our results obtained in the SDN simulations, are carried out using the version of ONOS

1.13.1 and the Mininet network emulator.

On the other hand, to establish the design of the SDN network, as well as the number of

controllers or data switches, number of switches, identification of physical links through which

the exchanged packets travel between the control plane at the application level, not only the

ONOS platform was used, but two complementary approaches were also adapted. On the one

hand, we use the SDN Mininet network emulator [7], to create a test network topology, which is

shown in Figure 1., and we proceed to execute an instance of ONOS with fwd (Simple reactive

2.3. MININET

An emulator is software that allows programs to be run on a different platform than the one

originally designed. Unlike a simulator, it only reproduces the behavior of the program while an

emulator accurately models a device that can be compared with the original hardware.

MiniNet [9] is one of the first emulators explicitly developed to support SDN, by allowing the

efficient execution of small-scale networks with artificial traffic on computers that are not