For each topology, we implemented five network sizes comprising 10, 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 SDN switching elements. These parameters are chosen to cover a wide range of data center sizes for viably testing the scalability of the algorithms on real SDN networks.
Remote cloud service
The cloud algorithms are developed using the Java platform and deployed on an Amazon EC2 [10] VM.
Cloud VM instance
the t2.micro with 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM
Physical machine running Mininet
MacBook Pro Mid 2015 laptop running OSX10.12 and supported with 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16 GB of DDR3 RAM
