VINEMA: Towards automated management of virtual networks in SDN infrastructures

Abstract

A crucial trend in networking is network virtualization. This concept aims to increase resource sharing by creating logical networks, completely isolated, in order to serve multiple tenants. Many approaches, with different architectures, have been proposed for virtualizing the network in Software Defined Networking (SDN). But, managing efficiently these virtual networks remains a real challenge which involves several tasks including designing, planning an IP addressing scheme, routing, etc. In this paper, we present VINEMA (Virtual Network Manager), a solution that simplifies as much as possible the management of virtual networks in an SDN infrastructure. VINEMA which is designed to serve SDN networks controlled by RYU, aims to minimize human intervention and ensures better control of the various operations related to the management of virtual networks such as: creation, configuration, updating, deletion, etc.