Efficient SDN Controller for Safety Applications in SDN-Based Vehicular Networks: POX, Floodlight, ONOS or OpenDaylight?

Karima Smida (1) , Hajer Tounsi (1) , Mounir Frikha (1) , Ye-Qiong Song (2)

1 MEDIATRON - Unité de Recherche en Réseaux Radio Mobile Multimédia
2 SIMBIOT - SIMulating and Building IOT

Thanks to its open programmability and logically centralized control, the software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm presents new potentials for communication and networking management in vehicular networks and promises improved performances. The variety of applications delivered on the road like safety, traffic efficiency and infotainment, in addition to the diversity of developed SDN controllers, triggered the challenge to determine which controller can act better in which service. In this paper we conduct a performance comparison of four open source controllers (POX, Floodlight, ONOS and OpenDaylight) in terms of e2e delay in the context of safety applications in variable vehicular density environment. Experimental study done with advanced tools such as Iperf and Mininet-wifi indicates that ODL is the best in this context.

Mots clés: Vehicular network; Internet of Vehicles; SDN; Delay evaluation; QoS

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Karima Smida, Hajer Tounsi, Mounir Frikha, Ye-Qiong Song. Efficient SDN Controller for Safety Applications in SDN-Based Vehicular Networks: POX, Floodlight, ONOS or OpenDaylight?. 2020 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet), Oct 2020, Hammamet, Tunisia. pp.1-6, ⟨10.1109/ComNet47917.2020.9306095⟩. ⟨hal-03526624⟩