SmartNV: Smart network virtualization based on SDN

Abstract

Nowadays virtual networks (VN) need an easier way to configure and manage. There are already plenty works about VN mapping but there are still no a proper approach can meet these requirements no single approach currently can meet these requirements simultaneously. Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging networking pattern that gives hope to change the limits of current network. Some researcher use SDN to deal with VN problem such as Flowvisor and Openvirtex, but these works only have VN platform’s core virtualization feature. In this paper, we proposed a SmartNV (Smart Network Virtualization) platform using our enhance Openvirtex. Based on our SDN-NV architecture, SmartNV can collect information from physical infrastructure and choose appropriate mapping algorithm to calculate the virtualization scheme. The evaluation experiments on our prototype system can satisfy the requirement of the NV based SDN.