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5.1 Introduction
The domain of the project being networking required us to work on a SDN
enabled physical environment with support for the OpenFlow protocol. But in
absence of the aforementioned environment, we shifted our focus to the use of
software simulation and emulation tools. Which enabled us to analyse network
models and understand OpenFlow protocol functioning by creating the desired
networks virtually.
Floodlight
Open Daylight
NOX
POX
Out of the available software we decided to use Open Daylight as our controller
software due to the availability of SDNi interface app. Which enables us to get
topology information in multi-controller environments. Thereby making Open
Daylight an obvious choice for our domain of work.
5.3.3 Mininet
Mininet is a software emulator for prototyping a large network on a single
machine. Mininet can be used to quickly create a realistic virtual network
running actual kernel, switch and software application code on a personal
computer. Mininet allows the user to quickly create, interact with, customize
and share a software-defined network (SDN) prototype to simulate a network
topology that uses OpenFlow switches.
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