Mininet flow analytics
Mininet is free software that creates a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine (VM, cloud or native), in seconds. Mininet is useful for development, teaching, and research. Mininet is also a great way to develop, share, and experiment with OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking systems.This article shows how standard sFlow instrumentation built into Mininet can be combined with sFlow-RT analytics software to provide real-time traffic visibility for Mininet networks. Augmenting Mininet with sFlow telemetry realistically emulates the instrumentation built into most vendor's switch hardware, provides visibility into Mininet experiments, and opens up new areas of research (e.g. SDN and large flows).
The following papers are a small selection of projects using sFlow-RT:
- Network-Wide Traffic Visibility in OF@TEIN SDN Testbed using sFlow
- OrchSec: An Orchestrator-Based Architecture For Enhancing Network-Security Using Network Monitoring And SDN Control Functions
- Utilizing OpenFlow and sFlow to Detect and Mitigate SYN Flooding Attack
- OpenDaylight Project Proposal "Dynamic Flow Management"
- Large Flows Detection, Marking, and Mitigation based on sFlow Standard in SDN
- An SDN-based Architecture for Network-as-a-Service
- Saving Energy in OpenFlow Computer Networks
- Implementation of Neural Switch using OpenFlow as Load Balancing Method in Data Center

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