An adaptive load balancing scheme for software-defined network controllers

Priyadarsini, Madhukrishna; Mukherjee, Joy Chandra; Bera, Padmalochan; Kumar, Shailesh; Jakaria, A H M; Rahman, Mohammad Ashiqur

doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2019.106918

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“…In multi-controller architecture, the uneven distribution of traffic load in the controllers can degrade system performance. In [11], a self-adaptive load balancing (SALB) scheme that balances load among multiple controllers dynamically with multiple switch migration from source controllers to target controllers is proposed. The key feature of SALB is an effective distribution of load under high load condition while considering the distance between switches and target controllers simultaneously.…”

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“…The key feature of SALB is an effective distribution of load under high load condition while considering the distance between switches and target controllers simultaneously. The efficacy of SALB is demonstrated through experimentation in [11] and the experimental results show that SALB experiences a small number of packet drops, which is less than 1.23% of the total number of message exchanges among the controllers. Robustness and fault tolerance are two important metrics to be considered in assessing SDN's advantage.…”

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“…It is a key research area to resolve the problems that mentioned above. The redundant manner that uses the multi-controller architecture is a generic solution, such as the master-slave backup [10][11][12][13] and Byzantine Fault Tolerance scheme (BFT) [14][15][16][17]. In the master-slave backup architecture, these two controllers that are respectively called the master controller and the slave controller are used.…”

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A novel security mechanism for software defined network based on Blockchain

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The decoupling of the data plane and the control plane in the Software-Defined Network (SDN) can increase the flexibility of network management and operation. And it can reduce the network limitations caused by the hardware. However, the centralized scheme in SDN also can introduce some other security issues such as the single point of failure, the data consistency in multiple- controller environment and the spoofing attack initiated by a malicious device in the data plane. To solve these problems, a security framework for SDN based on Blockchain (BCSDN) is proposed in this paper. BCSDN adopts a physically distributed and logically centralized multi-controller architecture. LLDP protocol is periodically used to obtain the link state information of the network, and a Merkle tree is establised according to the collected link information and the signature is generate based on KSI for each link that submitted by a switch by the main controller selected by using the PoW mechanism. Such, the dynamic change of network topology is recorded on Blockchian and the consistency of the topology information among multiple controllers can be guaranteed. The main controller issues the signature to the corresponding switch and a controller checks the legitimate of a switch by verifying the signature when it requests the flow rule table from the controller later. The signature verification ensures the authenticated communication between a controller and a switch. Finally, the simulation of the new scheme is implemented in Mininet platform that is a network emulation platform and experiments are done to verify our novel solution in our simulation tool. And we also informally analysis the security attributes that provided by our BCSDN.

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“…In [64], the authors proposed an SD-WiFi network load balance scheme called adaptive connection and hand-off (ACH), which considers the overload and hand-out process together to balance the load. Moreover, in [89], the authors suggested a self-adapting load balancing (SALB) scheme, which dynamically manages load between multiple controllers through multiple moving switches from source to goal controllers. The critical feature in the framework is the efficient transfer of load under high loads while also considering the difference between switches and having control.…”

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A Systematic Review of Load Balancing Techniques in Software-Defined Networking

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The traditional networks are facing difficulties in managing the services offered by cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things as the users have become more dependent on their services. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has pulled enthusiasm in the integration process of technologies and function as per the user's requirements for both academia and industry, and it has begun to be embraced in actual framework usage. The emergence of SDN has given another idea to empower the focal programmability of the system. Because of the increasing demand and the scarcity of resources, the load balancing issue needs to be addressed efficiently to manage the incoming traffic and resources and to improve network performance. One of the most critical issues is the role of the controller in SDN to balance the load for having a better Quality of Service (QoS). Though there are few survey articles written on load balancing, there is no detail and systematic review conducted in load balancing in SDN. Hence, this paper extends and reviews the discussion with a taxonomy of current emerging load balancing techniques in SDN systematically by categorizing the techniques as conventional and artificial intelligence-based techniques to improve the service quality. The review also includes the study of metrics and parameters which have been used to measure the performance. This review would allow gaining more information on load balancing approaches in SDN and enables the researchers to fill the current research gaps.

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“…It also helps to reduce the amount of duplicate data and improves the accuracy of data analysis. Moreover, to balance the load among distributed controllers, a selfadaptive technique is proposed in [78]. It dynamically migrates switches from one controller to another considering the geographical boundary and variation of loads.…”

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Software-Defined Multi-domain Tactical Networks: Foundations and Future Directions

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Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a programmable approach for provisioning and managing network resources by defining a clear separation between the control and data forwarding planes. Nowadays SDN has gained significant attention in the military domain. Its use in the battlefield communication facilitates the end-to-end interactions and assists the exploitation of edge computing resources for processing data in the proximity. However, there are still various challenges related to the security and interoperability among several heterogeneous, dynamic, intermittent, and data packet technologies like multi-bearer network (MBN) that need to be addressed to leverage the benefits of SDN in tactical environments. In this chapter, we explicitly analyse these challenges and review the current research initiatives in SDN-enabled tactical networks. We also present a taxonomy on SDNbased tactical network orchestration according to the identified challenges and map the existing works to the taxonomy aiming at determining the research gaps and suggesting future directions.

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An adaptive load balancing scheme for software-defined network controllers

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References 18 publications

A novel security mechanism for software defined network based on Blockchain

A novel security mechanism for software defined network based on Blockchain

A Systematic Review of Load Balancing Techniques in Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Multi-domain Tactical Networks: Foundations and Future Directions

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