Semi-reactive Switch Based Proxy ARP in SDN

Fauzi Dwi Setiawan Sumadi (University of Muhammadiyah Malang)
Diah Risqiwati (University of Muhammadiyah Malang)
Syaifuddin Syaifuddin (University of Muhammadiyah Malang)

Proceeding of the Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Informatics
Vol 5: EECSI 2018

In order to achieve high scalability during the network discovery process in software-defined networking (SDN), an extensive method for generating switch-based proxy is essential. This paper investigated the semi reactive solution for guiding the controller to build an OFPT_FLOW_MOD message that allowed SDN switch to reply an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request directly by deploying the semi-reactive switch-based proxy ARP application in northbound application programming interface (API). We conduct the experiment by using Open Networking Operating System (ONOS) an open-source SDN controller simulated in Mininet environment. As can be seen from the evaluation result, the installed application can reduce the ARP reaction time up to 95% calculated from the sender host. The final result also indicates that our approach can decrease the controller's loads significantly.