Deployment Schemes of In-Band Management Mode Based on Industrial SDN Network

Abstract

When software defined network (SDN) is used to deploy the industrial control network, the deployment schemes are different in actual according to the different industrial production business, environment and capital cost. In this paper, we use the in-band management mode to deploy the SDN network in an industrial environment. We design four deployment schemes of the in-band management mode for the industrial SDN network according to the specific requirements of industrial environment and propose an algorithm for controller location selection in the in-band management network. For the four schemes and the algorithm, we use the controller and switches to build a simulation environment according to different schemes and compare the performance between the in-band management and out-of-band management, which shows that the in-band management mode can set up a normal SDN industrial network with applicable network scale and throughput.