Network emulations are widely used for testing novel network protocols and routing
algorithms in realistic scenarios. Up to now, there is no emulation tool that is able to emulate …

Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) represents an innovative approach in the area of
computer networks, since they propose a new model to control forwarding and routing data …

The advancement of software-defined networking (SDN) technology is highly dependent on
the successful transformations from in-house research ideas to real-life products. To enable …

Netkit: Easy Emulation of Complex Networks on Inexpensive Hardware Page 1 Netkit: Easy
Emulation of Complex Networks on Inexpensive Hardware Maurizio Pizzonia pizzonia@dia.uniroma3.it …

Multi-tenant datacenters represent an extremely challenging networking environment.
Tenants want the ability to migrate unmodified workloads from their enterprise networks to …

Mininet is a system for rapidly prototyping large networks on the constrained resources of a
single laptop. The lightweight approach of using OS-level virtualization features, including …

We present CORE (common open research emulator), a real-time network emulator that
allows rapid instantiation of hybrid topologies composed of both real hardware and virtual …

Most enterprises today run their applications on virtual machines (VMs). VM mobility-both
live and offline, can provide enormous flexibility and also bring down OPEX (Operational …

OpenFlow is the first standard interface for realizing Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
that can decouple the data and control plane to provide scalable network management. To …

In this paper an evaluation of an SDN emulation tool called Mininet is conducted. Tests were
conducted to study Mininnet limitations related to the simulation environment, resource …