2023
doi: 10.12720/jait.14.4.846-856
An Effective Time-Sharing Switch Migration Scheme for Load Balancing in Software Defined Networking
Thangaraj Ethilu1,*
,
Abirami Sathappan1 ,
Paul Rodrigues2
- 1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Annamalai University, India
- 2Department of Computer and Engineering, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
- Manuscript receivedDecember 22, 2022
- revisedFebruary 20, 2023
- acceptedMay 11, 2023
- publishedAugust 22, 2023
Abstract
Using distributed Software Defined Networking (SDN)control, SDN delivers additional flexibility to network management, and it has been a significant breakthrough in network innovation. Switch migration is often used for distributed controller workload balancing. The Time-Sharing Switch Migration (TSSM) scheme proposed a strategy in which multiple controllers are allowed to share the workload of a switch via time sharing during an overloaded condition, resulting in reduced ping-pong controller difficulty, fewer overload occurrences, and improved controller efficiency. However, it requires more than one controller to accomplish, it has greater migration costs and higher controller resource usage during the TSSM operating time. As a result, we presented a coalitional game strategy that optimizes controller selection throughout the TSSM phase depending on flow characteristics. The new TSSM method reduces migration costs and controller resource usage while still providing TSSM benefits. For the sake of practicality, the proposed strategy is implemented using an open network operating system. The experimental findings reveal that, as compared to the typical TSSM system, the proposed technique reduces migration costs and controller resource usage by approximately 18%.
Keywords
- switch migration
- load balancing
- coalitional game strategy
- time sharing switch migration
- software defined networking
How to Cite
Thangaraj Ethilu, Abirami Sathappan, and Paul Rodrigues, "An Effective Time-Sharing Switch Migration Scheme for Load Balancing in Software Defined Networking," Journal of Advances in Information Technology, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 846-856, 2023. https://doi.org/10.12720/jait.14.4.846-856
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Copyright © 2023 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
