Assessing Profit of Prediction for SDN controllers load balancing

H Zhong, J Fan, J Cui, Y Xu, L Liu - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Software-defined networking (SDN) provides programmable control and centralized
management in data centers, making it a popular architecture. The large scale of networks …

Cooperative load balancing for hierarchical SDN controllers

H Selvi, G Gür, F Alagöz - 2016 ieee 17th international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) has been proposed as a new networking paradigm
which separates the control and data forwarding planes. The controllers deployed as …

Controller placement in software defined networks: A comprehensive survey

BPR Killi, SV Rao - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Software defined networking (SDN) offers centralized network management and effective
resource utilization by offloading the intelligent control plane, responsible for routing and …

HERO: Hierarchical energy optimization for data center networks

Y Zhang, N Ansari - IEEE Systems Journal, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid escalating power consumption has become critically important to modern data
centers. Existing works on reducing the power consumption of network elements formulate …

Elastic switch migration for control plane load balancing in SDN

Y Zhou, K Zheng, W Ni, RP Liu - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined network (SDN) provides a solution for the scalable network framework with
decoupled control and data plane. Migrating switches can balance the resource utilization of …

Scalability and reliability aware SDN controller placement strategies

F Bannour, S Souihi, A Mellouk - 2017 13th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The decoupling of control and data planes in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) brings
benefits in terms of logically centralized control and application programming. But, the single …

Energy-aware traffic engineering in hybrid SDN/IP backbone networks

Y Wei, X Zhang, L Xie, S Leng - Journal of Communications …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software defined network (SDN) can effectively improve the performance of traffic
engineering and will be widely used in backbone networks. Therefore, new energy-saving …

An SDN perspective to mitigate the energy consumption of core networks–GÉANT2

A Maleki, MM Hossain, JP Georges… - International SEEDS …, 2017 - hal.science
The dense usage of networks in peak times forced network designers to over-provision
resources to satisfy the needs during these specific times. Resources such as bandwidth …

A multi-controller placement strategy based on delay and reliability optimization in SDN

Z Fan, J Yao, X Yang, Z Wang… - 2019 28th wireless and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Defined Network (SDN) as a novel network architecture is a subversive revolution
of traditional network. It realizes the centralized control of the network by decoupling the …

Energy-aware routing for software-defined networks with discrete link rates: A benders decomposition-based heuristic approach

MK Awad, Y Rafique, RA M'Hallah - Sustainable Computing: Informatics …, 2017 - Elsevier
The energy efficiency of wired networks has received considerable attention over the past
decade due to its economic and environmental impacts. However, because of the vertical …