TSSM: Time-sharing switch migration to balance loads of distributed SDN controllers

WK Lai, YC Wang, YC Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) makes network management easier by using a
controller to govern all switches, but the controller may become a performance bottleneck …

Flow Stealer: lightweight load balancing by stealing flows in distributed SDN controllers

P Song, Y Liu, T Liu, D Qian - Science China. Information …, 2017 - search.proquest.com
Software-defined networking (SDN) introduces centralized controllers to increase network
programmability drastically. Distributed control planes, in which multiple SDN controllers …

Dynamic switch migration in distributed software-defined networks to achieve controller load balance

Y Xu, M Cello, IC Wang, A Walid… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple distributed controllers have been used in software-defined networks (SDNs) to
improve scalability and reliability, where each controller manages one static partition of the …

EASM: Efficiency-aware switch migration for balancing controller loads in software-defined networking

T Hu, J Lan, J Zhang, W Zhao - Peer-to-Peer networking and applications, 2019 - Springer
Distributed multi-controller deployment is a promising method to achieve a scalable and
reliable control plane of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). However, it brings a new …

A distributed decision mechanism for controller load balancing based on switch migration in SDN

T Hu, P Yi, J Zhang, J Lan - China Communications, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides flexible network management by decoupling
control plane from data plane. And multiple controllers are deployed to improve the …

Multiple-level threshold load balancing in distributed SDN controllers

H Mokhtar, X Di, Y Zhou, A Hassan, Z Ma, S Musa - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The distributed Software-Defined Networking (SDN) approach has been adopted to
address the scalability issue linked to the use of a single SDN controller, particularly in large …

DHA: Distributed decisions on the switch migration toward a scalable SDN control plane

G Cheng, H Chen, Z Wang… - 2015 IFIP Networking …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed control plane is a promising approach to a scalable software-defined networking
(SDN). However, traffic changes could incur load imbalance among individual controllers …

Load balancing for multiple controllers in SDN based on switches group

Y Zhou, Y Wang, J Yu, J Ba… - 2017 19th Asia-Pacific …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) develops a centralized control plane to manage the
whole network, but the traditional centralized control plane suffers from the issues of …

A load-balancing mechanism for distributed SDN control plane using response time

J Cui, Q Lu, H Zhong, M Tian… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) has become a popular paradigm for managing large-
scale networks including cloud servers and data centers because of its advantages of …

Prediction-based dual-weight switch migration scheme for SDN load balancing

H Zhong, J Xu, J Cui, X Sun, C Gu, L Liu - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Software-defined networking (SDN) is considered one of the most promising development
modes of the future Internet because of advantages such as programmability and …