Research Article

Exposing End-to-End Delay in Software-Defined Networking

Table 3

CPU utilization with/without packet-in under different new flow rates.

Item New Flow Rate
50 pps 500 pps 5k pps

w/o pkt-in 3%-4.1% 12% 13.20%
with pkt-in 24%-30% 36%-48% 35.2%-67%