CLOUDS-Pi: a low-cost Raspberry-Pi based micro data center for software-defined cloud computing

Adel Nadjaran Toosi; Jungmin Son; Rajkumar Buyya

doi:10.1109/MCC.2018.053711669

CLOUDS-Pi: a low-cost Raspberry-Pi based micro data center for software-defined cloud computing

Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Jungmin Son, Rajkumar Buyya

Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity

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Abstract

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is rapidly transforming the networking ecosystem of cloud computing data centers. However, replicating SDN-enabled cloud infrastructures to conduct practical research in this domain requires a great deal of effort and capital expenditure. In this paper, we present the CLOUDS-Pi platform, a small-scale cloud data center for doing research on software-defined clouds. As part of it, Open vSwitch (OVS) is integrated with Raspberry-Pis, low-cost embedded computers, to build up a network of OpenFlow switches. We provide two use cases and perform validation and performance evaluation. We also discuss benefits and limitations of CLOUDS-Pi in particular and SDN in general.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81-91
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Cloud Computing
Volume	5
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCC.2018.053711669
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2018

Keywords

Cloud computing
Data Center Networks
OpenDaylight
OpenStack
Raspberry Pi
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Software-Defined Cloud Computing

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