Traffic-aware Compatible Controller Deployment

Qingxiang Lin; Dong Zhang

10th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Traffic-aware Compatible Controller Deployment

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260718,
    author={Qingxiang Lin and Dong Zhang},
    title={Traffic-aware Compatible Controller Deployment},
    proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2015},
    month={9},
    keywords={software defined networking(sdn) controller deployment hierarchical architecture traffic-aware},
    doi={10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260718}
}

Qingxiang Lin
Dong Zhang
Year: 2015
Traffic-aware Compatible Controller Deployment
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260718

Qingxiang Lin¹^,*, Dong Zhang¹

1: College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University

*Contact email: woniu1753@gmail.com

Abstract

Multi-controller architecture(flat or hierarchical) has been proposed for Software Defined Networking(SDN). The placement of these controllers is needed to be considered, as which influences the optimization of network. To optimize network by placing controllers, we develop our controller placement framework to solve this issue, which is compatible for both flat and hierarchical control plane. Our algorithm is evaluated at some topologies and the simulation results show that: in networks with varied traffic, (1) load balance between controllers(domains) is maintained well and (2) fewer inter-domain flows are generated, which helps to eliminate the impact of control state inconsistency.

Keywords: software defined networking(sdn) controller deployment hierarchical architecture traffic-aware

Published: 2015-09-21
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260718