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Minimum Cost Load Migration in Distributed Software Defined Networks

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Software defined networking is a network paradigm which separates the control plane and the data plane. In a large SDN network, multiple controllers are used for handling switches’ requests. Because of the unbalanced requests, sometimes some controllers get overloaded. If switch’s management can be shifted from the overloaded controller to idle controllers, network performance can be improved. But shifting the switches will bring cost to the system. In this paper, the isolation nodes problem is studied. A minimum cost load migration approach and a heuristic migration algorithm are proposed. The proposed load migration approach can avoid the isolation nodes. The simulation results show that the proposed approach enhances the system performance.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 61772385, No. 61373040, No. 61572370).

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  1. Computer School of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Kuangyu Qin, Chuanhe Huang & Kewei Liu

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan, China

    Kuangyu Qin, Chuanhe Huang & Kewei Liu

  3. Regional Institute of Co-operative Management, Bangalore, India

    N. Ganesan

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  1. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Imed Romdhani

  2. Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, China

    Lei Shu

  3. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Hara Takahiro

  4. China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

    Zhangbing Zhou

  5. University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

    Timothy Gordon

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Qin, K., Huang, C., Ganesan, N., Liu, K. (2018). Minimum Cost Load Migration in Distributed Software Defined Networks. In: Romdhani, I., Shu, L., Takahiro, H., Zhou, Z., Gordon, T., Zeng, D. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8_19

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