Mininet Clustering

This paper presents a distributed version of Mininet, an Openflow network emulator. Normally, Mininet emulates an entire network of hosts and switches, each running as a seperate process within a Linux container, all on the same machine. Unfortunately, emulating networks that require more resources than a single machine are currently impossible in Mininet. By extending Mininet with cross-machine virtual links, this work allows researchers to emulate larger and more complex networks. Further, we demonstrate that network topologies can be automatically partitioned across machines, alleviating the otherwise burdensome task of doing so by hand.