GreenSDN: Bringing energy efficiency to an SDN emulation environment

Author

Rodrigues, Bruno B. ; Riekstin, Ana C. ; Januario, Guilherme C. ; Nascimento, Viviane T. ; Carvalho, Tereza C. M. B. ; Meirosu, Catalin

Author_Institution

Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

fYear

2015

fDate

11-15 May 2015

Firstpage

948

Lastpage

953

Abstract

A significant number of green, energy-saving network protocols have been invented in recent years in response to demand for reducing the amount of energy consumed by network infrastructure. In this paper, we report on the difficulties we encountered when building an SDN environment that could emulate energy saving protocols operating at different layers of the network. We propose solutions, based on the Mininet environment and the POX Openflow controller, that emulate the effects of three different energy saving protocols. Our approach is validated by comparing energy savings obtained by activating these protocols in an emulated network topology inspired by the Brazilian Research Network.

Keywords

energy conservation; energy consumption; environmental factors; protocols; software defined networking; telecommunication network topology; Brazilian research network; GreenSDN; Mininet environment; POX Openflow controller; SDN emulation environment; emulated network topology; energy consumption; energy efficiency; energy-saving network protocols; green network protocols; network infrastructure; software defined networks; Emulation; Green products; Network topology; Ports (Computers); Quality of service; Switches; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Network Management (IM), 2015 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INM.2015.7140416

Filename

7140416