- Title
- SDN-Based load balancing service for cloud servers
- Creator
- Abdelaziz, Ahmed; Ahmed, Ejaz; Fong, Ang; Gani, Abdullah; Imran, Muhammad
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/181744
- Identifier
- vital:15994
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2018.1701016
- Identifier
- ISBN:0163-6804 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- With the continuous growth, heterogeneity, and ever increasing demand of services, load balancing of cloud servers is an emerging challenge to meet highly demanding requirements (e.g., data rates, latency, quality of service) of 5G network applications. Although various load balancing techniques have been proposed, some of these techniques either require installation of dedicated additional load balancers for each service, or manual reconfiguration of the device to handle new services is desired. These techniques are expensive, time-consuming, and impractical. Moreover, most of the existing load balancing schemes do not consider service types. This article presents an SDN-based load balancing (SBLB) service for cloud servers to maximize resource utilization and minimize response time of users. The constituents of the proposed scheme are an application module that runs on top of an SDN controller and server pools that connect to the controller through OpenFlow switches. The application module consists of a service classification module, a dynamic load balancing module, and a monitoring module. The controller handles all messages, manages host pools, and maintains the load of host in real time. Experimental results validate the performance of the proposed scheme. Through experimental results, SBLB demonstrates significant decrease in average response time and reply time. © 1979-2012 IEEE.
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Relation
- IEEE Communications Magazine Vol. 56, no. 8 (2018), p. 106-111
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 1979-2012 IEEE
- Subject
- 4006 Communications Engineering; 4606 Distributed Computing and Systems Software
- Reviewed
- Funder
- M. Imran's work is supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University through Research Group No. RG-1435-051.
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