​SEED:​ ​Towards​ ​a​ ​Shared​ ​Evaluation​ ​Environment​ ​for​ ​Software-Defined-Networking Applications

Software-Defined-Networking (SDN) is an ongoing topic in the networking-community. Despite this, the evaluation of SDN-applications is still a nontrivial task. Researches need to study the evaluation environment as well as create fitting scenarios. This process is time consuming and error prone. Furthermore, the issue of reproducibility is gaining traction in the community as many publications are not reproducible. We present SEED, a Shared Evaluation Environment for SDN-applications. SEED separates applications, scenarios and simulators from each other. For this, it leverages the OpenFlow interface and introduces a description format for simulation scenarios. These scenarios are parsed by an adapter interface for three supported simulators. SEED aids researchers by enabling easy reuse of scenarios and by addressing simulators with a unified interface. Further, a clear experiment specification aids to simplify reproducibility.