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A Hybrid Software and Hardware SDN Simulation Testbed
In recent years, the software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm has been deployed in various types of networks, including wireless sensor networks (WSN), wide area networks (WAN) and data centers. Given the wide range of SDN domain applicability and the large-scale environments where the paradigm is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9823651/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36617086 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23010490 |
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author | Buzura, Sorin Peculea, Adrian Iancu, Bogdan Cebuc, Emil Dadarlat, Vasile Kovacs, Rudolf |
author_facet | Buzura, Sorin Peculea, Adrian Iancu, Bogdan Cebuc, Emil Dadarlat, Vasile Kovacs, Rudolf |
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description | In recent years, the software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm has been deployed in various types of networks, including wireless sensor networks (WSN), wide area networks (WAN) and data centers. Given the wide range of SDN domain applicability and the large-scale environments where the paradigm is being deployed, creating a full real test environment is a complex and costly task. To address these problems, software-based simulations are employed to validate the proposed solutions before they are deployed in real networks. However, simulations are constrained by relying on replicating previously saved logs and datasets and do not use real time hardware data. The current article addresses this limitation by creating a novel hybrid software and hardware SDN simulation testbed where data from real hardware sensors are directly used in a Mininet emulated network. The article conceptualizes a new approach for expanding Mininet’s capabilities and provides implementation details on how to perform simulations in different contexts (network scalability, parallel computations and portability). To validate the design proposals and highlight the benefits of the proposed hybrid testbed solution, specific scenarios are provided for each design idea. Furthermore, using the proposed hybrid testbed, new datasets can be easily generated for specific scenarios and replicated in more complex research. |
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spelling | pubmed-98236512023-01-08 A Hybrid Software and Hardware SDN Simulation Testbed Buzura, Sorin Peculea, Adrian Iancu, Bogdan Cebuc, Emil Dadarlat, Vasile Kovacs, Rudolf Sensors (Basel) Article In recent years, the software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm has been deployed in various types of networks, including wireless sensor networks (WSN), wide area networks (WAN) and data centers. Given the wide range of SDN domain applicability and the large-scale environments where the paradigm is being deployed, creating a full real test environment is a complex and costly task. To address these problems, software-based simulations are employed to validate the proposed solutions before they are deployed in real networks. However, simulations are constrained by relying on replicating previously saved logs and datasets and do not use real time hardware data. The current article addresses this limitation by creating a novel hybrid software and hardware SDN simulation testbed where data from real hardware sensors are directly used in a Mininet emulated network. The article conceptualizes a new approach for expanding Mininet’s capabilities and provides implementation details on how to perform simulations in different contexts (network scalability, parallel computations and portability). To validate the design proposals and highlight the benefits of the proposed hybrid testbed solution, specific scenarios are provided for each design idea. Furthermore, using the proposed hybrid testbed, new datasets can be easily generated for specific scenarios and replicated in more complex research. MDPI 2023-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9823651/ /pubmed/36617086 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23010490 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Buzura, Sorin Peculea, Adrian Iancu, Bogdan Cebuc, Emil Dadarlat, Vasile Kovacs, Rudolf A Hybrid Software and Hardware SDN Simulation Testbed |
title | A Hybrid Software and Hardware SDN Simulation Testbed |
title_full | A Hybrid Software and Hardware SDN Simulation Testbed |
title_fullStr | A Hybrid Software and Hardware SDN Simulation Testbed |
title_full_unstemmed | A Hybrid Software and Hardware SDN Simulation Testbed |
title_short | A Hybrid Software and Hardware SDN Simulation Testbed |
title_sort | hybrid software and hardware sdn simulation testbed |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9823651/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36617086 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23010490 |
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