Improving the Efficiency of Software Defined Network through Load Balancing Algorithms
B Rukmini Bhat, N S Sneha, Keerthana Bhat, Chaithra C Kamath, Chaitha Naik · 2021 Third International Conference on Intelligent Communication Technologies and Virtual Mobile Networks (ICICV) · 2021
In this current era, usage of the internet is increasing drastically. Digitization has led to high network traffic which makes the overall management of network highly complex and expensive as traditional networks are non-programmable. As a solution for these issues in traditional networks, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been introduced. SDN decouples the data plane and control plane, thereby making the network programmable. Load balancing in SDN is done to ensure effective management of resources as per client's request. This paper focuses on the effect of Load balancing on SDNs. Here, RTT is calculated for two cases. One, with application of least connection and Dijkstra algorithms and the other, without applying the algorithm. The result is compared to justify the efficiency improvement. We evaluate our system using mininet network emulator and the results demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of our proposed scheme in terms of delay and overhead.