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SDDC: A Software Defined Datacenter Experimental Framework

  • Ala Darabseh
  • , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub
  • , Yaser Jararweh
  • , Elhadj Benkhelifa
  • , Mladen Vouk
  • , Andy Rindos
  • Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • University of Staffordshire
  • North Carolina State University
  • IBM

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Abstract

The rapid growth and the distributed sites of the datacenters increase the complexity of control and management processes. A new paradigm which is called Software Defined Systems (SDSys) comes as a solution to reduce the overhead of datacenters management by abstracting all the control functionalities from the hardware devices and setting it inside a software layer. These functionalities are responsible for organizing and controlling the main blocks of the datacenter; network, storage, compute and security. The Software Defined Datacenter (SDD) integrates the software defined concepts into all of these main blocks. Transferring these concepts into workable systems requires checking several performance aspects and testing its correctness before building real systems. In this paper we introduce a novel experimental framework (SDDC) to provide a novel virtualized testbed environment for SDD systems. This work builds on the Mininet simulator, where its core components, the host, the switch and the controller, are customized to build the proposed experimental simulation framework for SDD. This simulator lets the users develop and test their own SDD solutions, and at the same time gives the researchers an experimentation tool for benchmarking purposes. The developed simulator could also be used as an educational tool to train students and novice researchers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015 and 2015 International Conference on Open and Big Data, OBD 2015
EditorsMuhammad Younas, Irfan Awan, Massimo Mecella
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages189-194
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467381031
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Oct 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 24 Aug 201526 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015 and 2015 International Conference on Open and Big Data, OBD 2015

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period24/08/1526/08/15

Keywords

  • Network topology
  • Random access memory
  • Security
  • Software
  • Switches
  • Topology

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