Elastic Switch Migration for Control Plane Load Balancing in SDN

Zhou, Y; Zheng, K; Ni, W; Liu, RP

Elastic Switch Migration for Control Plane Load Balancing in SDN

Zhou, Y Zheng, K Ni, W

Liu, RP

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Citation:: IEEE Access, 2018, 6 pp. 3909 - 3919
Issue Date:: 2018-01-18

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dc.contributor.author	Zhou, Y	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zheng, K	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ni, W https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4933-594X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Liu, RP https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-6305	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-01-18	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Access, 2018, 6 pp. 3909 - 3919	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/131764
dc.description.abstract	© 2013 IEEE. Software-defined network (SDN) provides a solution for the scalable network framework with decoupled control and data plane. Migrating switches can balance the resource utilization of controllers and improve network performance. Switch migration problem has to date been formulated as a resource utilization maximization problem to address the scalability of the control plane. However, this problem is NP-hard with high-computational complexities and without addressing the security challenges of the control plane. In this paper, we propose a switch migration method, which interprets switch migration as a signature matching problem and is formulated as a 3-D earth mover's distance model to protect strategically important controllers in the network. Considering the scalability, we further propose a heuristic method which is time-efficient and suitable to large-scale networks. Simulation results show that our proposed methods can disguise strategically important controllers by diminishing the difference of traffic load between controllers. Moreover, our proposed methods can significantly relieve the traffic pressure of controllers and prevent saturation attacks.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE Access	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2795576	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	Elastic Switch Migration for Control Plane Load Balancing in SDN	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	6	en_US
utslib.for	0805 Distributed Computing	en_US
utslib.for	08 Information and Computing Sciences	en_US
utslib.for	09 Engineering	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Electrical and Data Engineering
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - GBDTC - Global Big Data Technologies
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pubs.volume	6	en_US

Abstract:

© 2013 IEEE. Software-defined network (SDN) provides a solution for the scalable network framework with decoupled control and data plane. Migrating switches can balance the resource utilization of controllers and improve network performance. Switch migration problem has to date been formulated as a resource utilization maximization problem to address the scalability of the control plane. However, this problem is NP-hard with high-computational complexities and without addressing the security challenges of the control plane. In this paper, we propose a switch migration method, which interprets switch migration as a signature matching problem and is formulated as a 3-D earth mover's distance model to protect strategically important controllers in the network. Considering the scalability, we further propose a heuristic method which is time-efficient and suitable to large-scale networks. Simulation results show that our proposed methods can disguise strategically important controllers by diminishing the difference of traffic load between controllers. Moreover, our proposed methods can significantly relieve the traffic pressure of controllers and prevent saturation attacks.

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