SDN Based Load Balancing Mechanism for Elephant Flow in Data Center Networks

被引：0

作者：

Liu, Jing ^{[1
]}

Li, Jie ^{[1
]}

Shou, Guochu ^{[1
]}

Hu, Yihong ^{[1
]}

Guo, Zhigang ^{[1
]}

Dai, Wei ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Beijing Univ Posts & Telecommun, Sch Informat & Commun Engn, Beijing Key Lab Network Syst Architecture & Conve, Beijing, Peoples R China

来源：

2014 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WIRELESS PERSONAL MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC) | 2014年

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

SDN; elephant flow; load balancing; multipath routing; data center network;

D O I：

暂无

中图分类号：

TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

With various cloud services emerging in data center networks, network congestion and load imbalance are seriously caused by elephant flows. To resolve this problem, a load balancing mechanism based on software defined networking (SDN) for elephant flows is proposed. The mechanism obtains the topology and status of the entire network via global view of SDN. Then it splits and sends elephant flows through multiple paths based on the ratios which are dynamically computed by taking account of the states of links. Finally, the system prototype is implemented in OpenFlow testbed. The results show the proposed mechanism can significantly enhance the performance of the network by improving the network throughput and link utilization.

引用

页码：486 / 490

页数：5