PERFORMANCE TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF CONTROLLER POX AND RYU COMPARISON ON DEFINED NETWORK SOFTWARE NETWORK

Abstract

The main network infrastructure that is almost entirely managed by the vendor causes increasingly complex networks that are built, so that an approach is needed to manage and implement the network to support diverse needs, namely by using Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new conceptual approach to design, build and manage computer networks by separating the control plane and the data plane. The main component of Software Defined Network is the controller that directly controls the data from the device. There are ten things that are important in the selection of controllers according to Asthon, M. (2013) only one is the performance of the controller. Some controllers include POX and RYU controller, to find out which controller has good performance, then do a comparative analysis of the performance of the two controllers. Testing is done using Mininet as an emulator to design the test topology while QoS uses iperf and wireshark. The test results show the concept of the SDN network running well, in this analysis using the parameters Delay, Jitter, Packetloss and Throughput. From the data obtained, the RYU controller gets a good delay and Jitter value from the two 2 and 8 switch tests, which are below 0,0003s and 0.01ms. Whereas for Packetloss the two controllers are quite balanced with a difference of only 0.1% and the Throughput on RYU 8 switches has decreased significantly to 836mbit / sec.Keywords : Software Defined Network, Ryu, Pox, Mininet, Quality of Service