DocumentCode :
231205
Title :
SDN based load balancing mechanism for elephant flow in data center networks
Author :
Jing Liu ; Jie Li ; Guochu Shou ; Yihong Hu ; Zhigang Guo ; Wei Dai
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
fYear :
2014
fDate :
7-10 Sept. 2014
Firstpage :
486
Lastpage :
490
Abstract :
With various cloud services emerging in data center networks, network congestion and load imbalance are seriously caused by elephant flows. To resolve this problem, a load balancing mechanism based on software defined networking (SDN) for elephant flows is proposed. The mechanism obtains the topology and status of the entire network via global view of SDN. Then it splits and sends elephant flows through multiple paths based on the ratios which are dynamically computed by taking account of the states of links. Finally, the system prototype is implemented in OpenFlow testbed. The results show the proposed mechanism can significantly enhance the performance of the network by improving the network throughput and link utilization.
Keywords :
computer centres; computer network performance evaluation; resource allocation; software defined networking; telecommunication network topology; OpenFlow testbed; SDN; cloud services; data center networks; elephant flows; link utilization; load balancing mechanism; load imbalance; network congestion; network performance; network throughput; network topology; software defined networking; system prototype; Load management; Network topology; Ports (Computers); Routing; Switches; Throughput; Topology; SDN; data center network; elephant flow; load balancing; multipath routing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2014 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WPMC.2014.7014867
Filename :
7014867
Link To Document :
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