The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2015, 9 : 1449-1452
Published online 2015 September 23. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01509011449
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-9-1449

Research and Implementation on Virtual Network Mapping Mechanism based on SDN

Yanqin Mao , Yanxing Gui and Subin Shen
School of Computer Science & Technology, School of Software, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210003, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

Network virtualization technology allows multiple logical networks or network applications to run simultaneously on the underlying physical network. The virtual network mapping is the key method to realize network virtualization. Virtual tenant network (VTN) is a new technique for construction of multi-tenant network in software definition networking (SDN) network. VTN mapping mechanism is a core problem. In this paper MAC address-based mapping method which maps the host to the virtual network according to the host’s MAC address is proposed. Besides, a virtual network based on MAC address mapping method is established to verify the effectiveness of the VTN mapping method based on MAC address.

Keywords:

Network virtualization, software defined networking, virtual network mapping, virtual tenant network.