Applying load balancing algorithms for multiple access management on software-defined networking servers
Joao Victor Oliveira Farias, Emanuel Ferreira Coutinho, Carla Ilane Moreira Bezerra · 2020
With the increase in the volume of computer networks usage, effective management is becoming increasingly difficult. Software Defined Networks (SDN) have emerged to address this situation. The objective of this work is to demonstrate the benefits of using SDN control policies through load balancing strategies in accessing servers. For this, we developed multiple access tests on servers submitted directly to the control access provided by the manager, demonstrating how different algorithms can affect the quality of bandwidth and latency in a structure with limited servers. The algorithms evaluated were Round-Robin, Random and Least-Bandwidth. The results indicated that Round-Robin behaved better than the other access scales in environments with limited servers, and the algorithm that used the least trafficked link showed better scalability when managing multiple servers and requisitions.