IP-Based Hashing Load Balancer in Software Defined Networking
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Abstract
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new principle in the networking paradigm
where control and management are centralized and decoupled from data plane, thus
making the network programmable and uses open interfaces between the devices in the
control plane (controllers) and those in the data plane. Load balancer is a system that
distributes network or application traffic across a cluster of servers depending upon
load balancing strategy. Here, IP hash-based load balancer algorithm has been deployed
over SDN Framework and its performance over other load balancing algorithms; round
robin, weighted round robin were evaluated and compared using HTTP server client
model with exchange of different file sizes samples and standard dataset files. Further,
the implemented model was evaluated using opensource network evaluation tool iPerf.
The result showed that the performance of IP based Hash algorithm was observed to be
slightly better among other in Software defined network.
Description
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new principle in the networking paradigm
where control and management are centralized and decoupled from data plane, thus
making the network programmable and uses open interfaces between the devices in the
control plane (controllers) and those in the data plane.