Software Defined Networking vs Traditional Networks: A Comparative Analysis and Results

Author(s)	Mr. NIKHIL PANDEY, Pradeep Kr Sharma, Brijesh Kumar
Country	India
Abstract	SDN is an approach of creating new solutions, innovative applications and deploying them over the application plane rather than providing a hardware-based point solution. In SDN, control plane works as a logically centralized control unit which works like a brain of the network and Application plane is the heart of SDN architecture. This article describes the history of programmable networks and its architecture with the role of different planes like data plane, control plane, and application plane. This paper focused on the qualitative investigation as well as quantitative results and provides a comparative analysis between traditional and SDN on the basis of architecture, protocol and infrastructure layer. It has been proposed that SDN is the new norm of networking and a future technology which provides programmability, flexibility and automation with logically centralized control where TN is lacking behind. Mininet simulator has been used for quantitative results like round-trip time, bitrate, bandwidth on TCP and UDP port. This article provides a fine tune research direction to the researchers and network administrators in field of SDN.
Keywords	network virtualization, round-trip time, bandwidth
Field	Engineering
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-12-22

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