Design and development of management functions for distributed monitoring based on SDN-based network

Abstract

In the latest years, we have seen a fast evolution of Internet systems and a remarkable increase of the number and variety of services required. The need of new architectural solutions has led to the creation of new tools that allow to develop more flexible and dynamic networks. Software Defined Networking (SDN) goes in this direction, offering a new way to manage networks, based on programmability, virtualization of the network and centralization of decision processes. In this article we will analyse how it is possible to deploy these new tools to realize some fundamental network functions also for monitoring systems. We will also show a real testbed where we implemented the functions we describe, and we will show the experimental results obtained with it.