# Integrated SDN-NFV 5G Network Performance and Management-Complexity Evaluation
## 4 Evaluation and Result
### Manageability Evaluation
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c} \hline \hline
**No** & **Process Name** & **Device** & **Measure Time (Minutes)** \\ \hline
1 & Access the Access Policies menu on the SDN controller to create an Attachable Entity via the AEP Profile sub-menu & SDN controller & 5 \\
2 & Access the Networking menu on the VM controller for vSwitch configuration & VM controller & 5 \\
3 & Access the Networking menu on the VM controller to create a Distributed Virtual Switch & VM controller & 5 \\
4 & Access the Networking menu on the VM controller to map the network adapter to the host & VM controller & 15 \\  & Access the Access Policies menu on the SDN controller to create a Leaf Access Port Policy via the Leaf Access Port sub-menu & SDN controller & 5 \\
6 & Checking the VM controller whether the interface configuration is appropriate & VM controller & 1 \\
7 & Access the Networking menu on the VM controller to add hosts to bind with the newly created policy & VM controller to add hosts to bind with the newly created policy & 3 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 11: Measuring time of policy increments with non-integrated SDN controller and VM controller. policies added increases, separate SDN and NFV environments require more time than integrated SDN and NFV environments in policy making. (3) Added Endpoint Group (EPG) and port-group  
The next test is to add an endpoint group (EPG) to the SDN controller and port group. This test is important considering that this is one of the activities that administrators often perform when setting up the data center environment. With the rapid addition of applications to the company, it also requires speed of deployment on the infrastructure side. In this test, an endpoint group (EPG) is added, accompanied by the creation of a centralized port group on the SDN controller. The endpoint group (EPG) is an entity on SDN that contains information on server infrastructure or the like connected to SDN devices, such as the VLAN used and the port connected to SDN. To associate EPG with DVS, we can do this through the SDN controller dashboard in the application EPG sub-menu. Based on Tables 13 and 14, we can see that the process of adding EPG and port-groups in the combined SDN-NFV environment is quite simple and can be done centrally on the SDN controller dashboard, while on separate SDN and NFV networks it takes more time because we need to perform manual configuration on two different dashboards. The time difference between the two tests was 3 min compared to 12 min. Of course, apart from being time-consuming, a configuration that is not centralized is very at risk of misconfiguration, which can also make deployment time longer because troubleshooting must be performed in both environments. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c} \hline \hline
**No** & **Process Name** & **Device** &
\begin{tabular}{c} **Measure Time** \\ **(Minutes)** \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{1} & Access the Tenants menu on the SDN controller to & \multirow{4}{*}{SDN controller} & \multirow{4}{*}{2} \\  & associate an EPG with a port-group via the & & \\  & Application EPG sub-menu & & \\ \cline{1-1}  & Checking on the VM controller whether the VLAN & & \\ \cline{1-1}  & on the port-group matches the VLAN EPG & & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 13: EPG association measurement time with port-group. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} \hline \hline
**Instance Number** & **SDN-NFV** & **SDN** \\ \hline
1 & 17 & 39 \\
2 & 34 & 78 \\
4 & 68 & 156 \\
6 & 102 & 234 \\
8 & 136 & 312 \\
10 & 170 & 390 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 12: Comparison of measurement times for adding integrated policies. Table 15 provides a comparison of the estimated time in minutes required to complete the scenario of adding EPG and port groups with an increased number of instances. As the number of instances added increases, separate SDN and NFV environments take more time than integrated SDN and NFV environments to create instances.