Title: Towards an automated framework to instantiate virtual networks in OpenFlow-based infrastructures

Authors: Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin; Elio Salvadori; Matteo Gerola

Addresses: CREATE-NET, via alla Cascata 56/D – 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy ' CREATE-NET, via alla Cascata 56/D – 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy ' CREATE-NET, via alla Cascata 56/D – 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy

Abstract: The explosion of cloud applications and data-centres technologies has recently renewed the interest of both academic and industrial research community on network virtualisation techniques. The increasing availability of programmable network devices and the pervasive adoption of a software-defined networking approach in all segments of the network are paving the way toward novel virtualisation approaches which aim at improving network management operations while guaranteeing a better utilisation of resources especially when compared to traditional overlay-based techniques widely used in data-centre settings. In this paper, the experience gained by the authors in the development and deployment of an innovative network virtualisation framework on an OpenFlow-based programmable experimental facility is provided and discussed in detail. Despite its specific application to a Future Internet testbed scenario, the proposed architecture is a first step toward a completely automatic management of virtual networks in OpenFlow-based software-defined networks.

Keywords: network virtualisation; OpenFlow; testbeds; network management; experimentation; virtual network embedding; software defined networks; SDNs; virtual networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2016.080110

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2016 Vol.17 No.3, pp.234 - 253

Accepted: 02 Jun 2016
Published online: 02 Nov 2016 *

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