Analysis of the effectiveness of the load balancing mechanisms in Software-Defined Networking

Abstract

The paper is devoted to analysis of load balancing mechanisms in Software-Defined Networking. Software-Defined Networking has a lot of benefits, however the use of classical traffic engineering principles for traffic management in Software-Defined Network presents a problem. Analysis of the effectiveness of management mechanisms, and in particular, algorithms for network load balancing that enable to take into account the centralised structure and heterogeneous nature of traffic in software-defined networks is proposed.