The role of the inter-controller consensus in the placement of distributed SDN controllers

Our work provides novel quantitative tools to optimize the planning and the design of the network supporting the control plane of SDN networks, especially when the network is very large and in-band control plane is adopted. We also show that for operationally distributed controllers (e.g., OpenDaylight and ONOS), the location of the controller that acts as leader in the consensus algorithm has a strong impact on the reactivity perceived by the switches.