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A load balancing strategy of SDN controller based on distributed decision

  • Beihang University
  • Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

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Abstract

Software-Defined Networking (SDN), enabled by Open Flow, represents a paradigm shift from traditional network to the future Internet. Replicate or distributed controllers have been proposed to address the issues of availability and scalability that a centralized controller suffers from. However, it lacks a flexible mechanism to balance load among distributed controllers. To address this problem, this paper presents DALB, a dynamic and adaptive algorithm for controller load balancing totally based on distributed architecture, without any centralized component. This algorithm is running as a module of SDN controller. On one hand, it adopts an adjustable load collection threshold so as to reduce the overhead of exchanging messages for load collection, and on the other hand it can make policy and election locality in order to reduce the decision delay caused by network transmission. In this paper, we build the prototype system on floodlight to demonstrate our design and test the performance of our algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages851-856
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479965137
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jan 2015
Event13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: 24 Sep 201426 Sep 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2014

Conference

Conference13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period24/09/1426/09/14

Keywords

  • Distributed decision
  • Load balancing
  • OpenFlow
  • Software-defined networking (SDN)

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