S-Box virtualized playground for automated lightweight experiments on SDN and Cloud

Recently diverse testbeds are built to experiment and verify new service ideas on SDN/Cloud-leveraged networking. In the early stage of verification, easy and speedy execution of experiments is required. Thus, in this paper, we introduce S-Box virtualized playground, where lightweight experiments are automatically executed only with the virtualized resources in a single box. The proposed S-Box concept can be applied to any Linux box and enables flexible provisioning of virtualized boxes in a single box (with virtualized inter-connected functions). To verify the feasibility of S-Box, we configure an OpenStack site with 4 virtual boxes and execute example service realizations.