Performance Comparison of Ryu and Floodlight Controllers in Different SDN Topologies

Ryu and Floodlight controllers are being used in academia and industries for different research and development purposes. The objective of this paper is to compare the performance of these controllers under different topologies namely single, linear, tree, torus and custom. Experiments are performed under a much known emulator, mininet. Four parameters were valuated under this experimental setups namely throughput, jitter, latency and packet loss. Valuation of results clearly shows that Ryu is giving better throughput as compared to Floodlight in all the topologies. In case of latency and jitter Ryu is performing better in all the topologies except Torus. Similar is the case with packet loss.