Performance evaluation of an OpenFlow-based mirroring switch on a laptop/raspberry Pi

Abstract

This paper describes an implementation and performance evaluation of an OpenFlow-based laptop mirroring switch. We confirm that we can build a mirroring switch which can forward traffic faster than 200 Mbps with only an inexpensive laptop PC and USB 3.0 gigabit Ethernet adapters. If we use a Raspberry Pi as substitute for a laptop PC, we can build a 30 Mbps or faster switch.