A network load balancing algorithm for overlay-based SDN solutions
Olena Tkachova, Abdulghafoor Raed Yahya, Hassan Mohamed Muhi-Aldeen · 2016
Overlay solutions of SDN-based networks became very popular. Controller as a centralized management devices gather information about network topology and current network state. Overlay network have a lot benefits however the using of classical traffic engineering principles for traffic management in Software-Defined Network is becoming problem. The physical network does not automatically adapt to the changes. As the overlay-based networks grow and requires more resources. The management mechanism - network load balancing algorithm - that take into account centralized structure and heterogeneous traffic nature of Software-Defined Network is proposed in the paper.