Comparison of SDN OpenFlow network simulator and emulators: EstiNet vs. Mininet

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Shie Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC LIGHTING; SCALABILITY;

GRID NETWORK; NETWORK SETUP; NETWORK SIZE; OPENFLOW NETWORKS; OPENFLOW SWITCHES; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; REAL-WORLD; SIMULATED RESULTS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 84908191197     PISSN: 15301346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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