Investigating the Performance in SDN Based Data Centers Under Different Network Topologies

Abstract

A data center architecture can be determined as the basic structure of a cloud computing data center. However, the expected outcome cannot be obtained even though the tools, technologies, and elements are advanced. It is crucial to select the right architecture as architecture used, which directly affects the operational cost and power consumption of the data center. The SDN, Software Defined Networking, is a novel technology of cloud computing. This SDN is used to separate the control panel and forwarding plane as well, as it enables programmable network components. Therefore, the components of the SDN can easily control and managed. This research aimed to select an SDN-based architecture for a data center. Here, there are two parameters of average throughput and average packet delay on the three existing architectures that are tested using simulation. Then the results are compared with each other. In this research, the accuracy correlations among average packet delay and average throughput are investigated. The Obtained results show that Fat-Tree architecture is the best one among VL2 and hybrid architecture consists with flat tree and VL2 technology in terms of their performances.