Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities. 11th International Conference, TRIDENTCOM 2016, Hangzhou, China, June 14-15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Loose Management for Multi-controller in SDN

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-49580-4_1,
        author={Ligang Dong and Jing Zhou and Tijie Xu and Dandan Yang and Ying Li and Weiming Wang},
        title={Loose Management for Multi-controller in SDN},
        proceedings={Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities. 11th International Conference, TRIDENTCOM 2016, Hangzhou, China, June 14-15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2017},
        month={1},
        keywords={Distributed control Multi-controller Loose management SDN},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-49580-4_1}
    }
    
  • Ligang Dong
    Jing Zhou
    Tijie Xu
    Dandan Yang
    Ying Li
    Weiming Wang
    Year: 2017
    Loose Management for Multi-controller in SDN
    TRIDENTCOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49580-4_1
Ligang Dong1,*, Jing Zhou1, Tijie Xu1, Dandan Yang1, Ying Li1, Weiming Wang1
  • 1: Zhejiang Gongshang University
*Contact email: donglg@zjgsu.edu.cn

Abstract

Centralized network control plane in SDN brings scalability and reliability problem to the network, therefore, the research of multi-controller is appeared. For improving the communication efficiency between the controller and the network device, this paper proposes a loose management strategy to dynamically adjust the frequency of interaction between controllers and network devices. Based on the above idea, firstly, this paper designed the scheme and algorithm of multi-controller loose management. Secondly, this paper quantitatively analyzed the advantages of multi-controller loose management algorithm by mathematically modeling the virtual network deployment success ratio and the management revenue between controllers and network devices. Finally, experiment results show that the multi-controller loose management idea can improve the communication efficiency between the controller and the network device and the controller management efficiency. Simulation results also show that mathematical model accurately predict the performance of loose management algorithm.