OpenFlow Based Load Balancing for Software-Defined Network Applications

摘要

The emergence of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has triggered innovative ideas related to the field of network design and management. SDN is seen as an ideal platform for network that keeps expanding and require new adaptation in order to meet the demand from the user. In this work,load balancing method is used in SDN environment to provide congestion control in the network. The load balancing method exploit Dijkstra’s algorithm to find the best path in the network. The experiment is conducted using Mininet emulator whereby OpenFlow based method is used togetherwith Open Daylight controller. Results show that the proposed method is able to improve the performance of the network in term of average bandwidth ratio and average packet delay.