HARDWARE-BASED OPENFLOW SWITCH TESTING IN SDN ARCHITECTURE USING OPEN DAYLIGHT CONTROLLER

• Main Author: Frescavinna Maheswari, Talitha
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/39855
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

SDN (Software-Defined Networking) is a network architecture that facilitates network configuration by equalizing the configuration from various brands of devices such as switches, without having to learn the command language. In SDN, there is a component called controller as the control center and includes many switch using the OpenFlow communication protocol. Currently, OpenFlow has been developed until version 1.4. Version 1.3 is the most widely used stable version. OpenFlow devices can be a software such as Open vSwitch which is also called an ideal SDN switch because it can be updated at any time, or in hardware form that produced by vendors. However, not all hardware-based switches follow SDN developments especially in terms of the OpenFlow protocol. In this final project, we will discuss several hardware-based OpenFlow switch brands both in terms of characteristics, configuration, performance, and vendor services provided. This final project aims to provide recommendations for OpenFlow switches based on testing the characteristics of switches. The characteristics used as the main comparison of the switch are the OpenFlow version, using a program created and integrated with the Open Daylight controller, the Northbound REST API protocol, and library requests in Python. For performance, switches are tested based on certain conditions including native (traditional) mode and OpenFlow mode with two kinds of flow entries, action: normal and inport-outport. The switches tested is a hybrid switch, because it can operate using the two modes mentioned above. The switches tested manufactured by Pica8, Aruba, and MikroTik vendors. Good hardware-based characteristics OpenFlow switches support the most SDN features, have stable and equal performance in both modes, complemented by responsive vendor services and easily understood documentation.