Rapid Building of Software-based SDN Testbed using SDN Owl

摘要

This paper presents the development of a software tool called SDN Owl that is used to facilitate a quick and easy construction of SDN testbed using open source software. SDN OWL is based on using a few computers, Linux operating system, Ansible, and OpenvSwitch to build an SDN testbed. The prototype testbed has been built using SDN OWL. The experimental results show that the SDN testbed that is built can function properly with a reasonable performance. In addition, the performance of hardware installation and container installation has been investigated as well. The result of this work enables an easy creation of a cost-effective SDN testbed from commodity computing components. This is very crucial for many small companies and research teams that want to study and develop the next generation SDN services and tools.