CLOUDS-Pi : A Low-Cost Raspberry-Pi based Testbed for Software-Defined-Networking in Cloud Data Centers

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is rapidly transforming the networking ecosystem of cloud computing data centers. However, replicating SDN-enabled cloud infrastructures to conduct practical research in this domain requires a great deal of effort and capital expenditure. In this paper, we present the CLOUDS-Pi platform, a testbed for conducting research on SDN-enabled cloud computing. As part of it, Open vSwitch (OVS) is integrated with Raspberry-Pis, lowcost embedded computers, to build up a network of OpenFlow switches. We provide two use cases and perform validation and performance evaluation for our testbed. We also discuss benefits and limitations of CLOUDS-Pi in particular and SDN in general.

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