A comprehensive survey of load balancing techniques in software-defined network

M Hamdan, E Hassan, A Abdelaziz, A Elhigazi… - Journal of Network and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A software-defined network (SDN) separates the network control plane from the data
forwarding plane. SDN has shown significant benefits in many ways compared to …

Load balancing mechanisms in the software defined networks: a systematic and comprehensive review of the literature

AA Neghabi, NJ Navimipour, M Hosseinzadeh… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the expansion of the network and increasing their users, as well as emerging new
technologies, such as cloud computing and big data, managing traditional networks is …

A systematic review of load balancing techniques in software-defined networking

MR Belgaum, S Musa, MM Alam, MM Su'ud - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Intelligent load balancing techniques in software defined networks: A survey

T Semong, T Maupong, S Anokye, K Kehulakae… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the current technology driven era, the use of devices that connect to the internet has
increased significantly. Consequently, there has been a significant increase in internet …

On load balancing via switch migration in software-defined networking

F Al-Tam, N Correia - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Switch-controller assignment is an essential task in multi-controller software-defined
networking. Static assignments are not practical because network dynamics are complex …

Nature‐inspired meta‐heuristic algorithms for solving the load balancing problem in the software‐defined network

A Akbar Neghabi, N Jafari Navimipour… - International Journal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The growth of the networks has difficult network management. Recently, a concept called
software‐defined network (SDN) has been proposed to address this issue, which makes …

Round-robin based load balancing in Software Defined Networking

S Kaur, K Kumar, J Singh… - 2015 2nd international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
These days our networks have to handle large amount of traffic, serve thousands of clients. It
is very difficult for a single server to handle such huge load. The solution is to use multiple …

Network augmentation by dynamically splitting the switching function in SDN

BS Rawal, G Manogaran, R Singh… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking is a synonym for the term programmable network and is the
Key for 5G and beyond networking paradigms. Software-defined network (SDN) provides …

Improving the performance of load balancing in software-defined networks through load variance-based synchronization

Z Guo, M Su, Y Xu, Z Duan, L Wang, S Hui, HJ Chao - Computer Networks, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new network technology that decouples
the control plane logic from the data plane and uses a programmable software controller to …

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 …