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e system configures the switches and maintains the physical
topology of the network. It may reconfigure the physical-to-virtual
port as a physical failure.
It uses Open Network Management System (OpenNMS) as the
management framework because it is an open source. e virtual
network management and the controller management modules are
added, as shown in Figure 9.5. e prototype is successfully tested
on the testbed consisting of six PCs, one switch, and one OpenFlow
switch.
A novel layer 2 network virtualization approach based on a new
medium access control (MAC) addressing scheme ...