SDN Experimental on the PSU Network

The Prince of Songkla University (PSU) is the top five universities of Thailand that still uses traditional networking. Presently, there are Internet applications that are able to provide dynamic, manageable, and adaptable features such as Software-defined Networking (SDN). SDN is a recent concept of programmable networks that divides the control plane and data plane of all network devices. It can be programmed via an open interface which is interesting to implement SDN because of their various benefits such as centralized network provisioning, lower operating costs etc. In this paper, we propose comparison between traditional PSU network which is defined Static routing (Static routing non-SDN) and SDN which are using programmable algorithm such as Bellman-Ford SDN (BFSDN) unicast, Dijkstra SDN (DSDN) on both unicast and multicast in order to determine worthiness of migration from traditional network to SDN. In part of topology emulator, we have replicated topology by Mininet. Its performance is examined in terms of throughput, latency, jitter, and packet loss.