Abstract
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) employs a centralized control with a global network view and provides great opportunities to improve network performance. However, due to the limitation of flow-table space at the switches and unbalanced traffic allocation on links, an SDN may suffer from flow-table overflow and inefficient bandwidth allocation among flows, increasing the controller's burden and degrading network performance. In this paper, we present a dynamic routing scheme named DIFF that differentiates flows based on their impact on network resource and adaptively selects routing paths for them to mitigate the problems of flow-table overflow and inefficient bandwidth allocation. DIFF pre-generates a set of paths for each pair of source–destination edge switches and intelligently selects the paths from the pre-generated path-sets for new flows with an objective to balance flow-table utilizations. It adaptively reroutes some elephant flows to achieve maximum throughput under the rule of max–min fair bandwidth allocation. Simulation results show that DIFF simultaneously balances the flow-table and link utilizations, reduces the controller's workload and packet delay, while increasing network throughput, compared with baseline schemes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 213-223 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Future Generation Computer Systems |
Volume | 89 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2018 |
Keywords
- Flow-table overflow
- Max–min fairness
- OpenFlow
- Routing
- Software-defined networking
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications