BALANCEFLOW:CONTROLLER LOAD BALANCING FOR OPENFLOW NETWORKS

摘要：

　　In the discussion about Future Internet,Software-Defined Networking (SDN),enabled by OpenFlow,is currently seen as one of the most promising paradigm.While the availability and scalability concerns rises as a single controller could be alleviated by using replicate or distributed controllers,there lacks a flexible mechanism to allow controller load balancing.This paper proposes BalanceFlow,a controller load balancing architecture for OpenFlow networks.By utilizing CONTROLLER X action extension for OpenFlow switches and cross-controller communication,one of the controllers,called super controller,can flexibly tune the flow-requests handled by each controller,without introducing unacceptable propagation latencies.Experiments based on real topology show that BalanceFlow can adjust the load of each controller dynamically.

关键词： OpenFlow Load balancing Scalability Software-defined networking Future Internet

作者: Yannan Hu Wendong Wang Xiangyang Gong Xirong Que Shiduan Cheng

作者单位: State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing,100876,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2012 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (2012年第2届IEEE云计算与智能系统国际会议(IEEE CCIS2012))

会议地点: 杭州

会议语种:英文

页码: 1009-1014

在线出版日期: 2012-10-30（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）