An SDN Architecture for IoT Networks Using ONOS Controller

Abstract

In order to evaluate the ONOS controller for Software Defined Networks (SDN) in an Internet of Things (IoT) context, Mininet was installed and configured in a virtual machine. Two different scenarios were created: the first one tests the general functionality of the proposed architecture with the IoT data being sent from the MQTT.fx client to the Orange Live Objects platform. For the second scenario different flow rules were configured in order to send the time-critical IoT data from the Mosquitto client to the broker on the path with the lowest delay. The proposed solution can easily be extended to accommodate other types of IoT devices and platforms.