DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED LOAD BALANCING WITH LIMITED FORWARDING RULES IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS

摘要

The present disclosure relates to a device and method for a traffic forwarding network device and proposes a solution for imbalance issues by adapting load balancing to real traffic conditions. The network device tries to solve imbalance issues locally by readjusting the traffic of problematic flows and in case the issues cannot be solved locally, notifies a central network controller to reconfigure the network in order to solve the imbalance issue.