The increasing demand of bandwidth, low latency and reliability, even in mobile scenarios, has pushed the evolution of the networking technologies in order to satisfy the requirements of innovative services. In this context, Software Defined Networking (SDN), namely a new networking paradigm that proposes the decoupling of the control plane from the forwarding plane, enables network control centralization and automation of the network management. In order to address the performance issues related to the SDN Control Plane, this paper proposes a distributed load balancing algorithm with the aim of dynamically balancing the control traffic across a cluster of SDN Controllers, thus minimizing the latency and increasing the overall cluster throughput. The algorithm is based on game theory and converges to a specific equilibrium known as Wardrop equilibrium. Numerical simulations show that the proposed algorithm outperforms a standard static configuration approach.

A distributed load balancing algorithm for the control plane in software defined networking / Cimorelli, Federico; Delli Priscoli, Francesco; Pietrabissa, Antonio; RICCIARDI CELSI, Lorenzo; Suraci, Vincenzo; Zuccaro, Letterio. - STAMPA. - (2016), pp. 1033-1040. (Intervento presentato al convegno 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2016 tenutosi a Athens, GR) [10.1109/MED.2016.7535946].

A distributed load balancing algorithm for the control plane in software defined networking

CIMORELLI, FEDERICO;Delli Priscoli, Francesco;Pietrabissa, Antonio
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RICCIARDI CELSI, LORENZO;Suraci, Vincenzo;ZUCCARO, LETTERIO
2016

Abstract

The increasing demand of bandwidth, low latency and reliability, even in mobile scenarios, has pushed the evolution of the networking technologies in order to satisfy the requirements of innovative services. In this context, Software Defined Networking (SDN), namely a new networking paradigm that proposes the decoupling of the control plane from the forwarding plane, enables network control centralization and automation of the network management. In order to address the performance issues related to the SDN Control Plane, this paper proposes a distributed load balancing algorithm with the aim of dynamically balancing the control traffic across a cluster of SDN Controllers, thus minimizing the latency and increasing the overall cluster throughput. The algorithm is based on game theory and converges to a specific equilibrium known as Wardrop equilibrium. Numerical simulations show that the proposed algorithm outperforms a standard static configuration approach.
2016
24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2016
Game theory; load balancing; Software Defined Networks; Wardrop equilibrium; Control and Systems Engineering; Control and Optimization; Modeling and Simulation
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A distributed load balancing algorithm for the control plane in software defined networking / Cimorelli, Federico; Delli Priscoli, Francesco; Pietrabissa, Antonio; RICCIARDI CELSI, Lorenzo; Suraci, Vincenzo; Zuccaro, Letterio. - STAMPA. - (2016), pp. 1033-1040. (Intervento presentato al convegno 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2016 tenutosi a Athens, GR) [10.1109/MED.2016.7535946].
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