Balanced Service Chaining in Software-Defined Networks with Network Function Virtualization

Authors :: Cheng-Ying Wu
Yi-Chih Kao
Ying-Dar Lin
Po-Ching Lin
Yuan-Cheng Lai
Source :: Computer. 49:68-76
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016.
Abstract: Balanced Hash Tree (BHT) is a mechanism for service function (SF) chaining, service routing, and traffic steering that enables switches to select SF instances for load balancing without involving the controller. In an experimental evaluation, BHT decreased packet-in message-processing time by 92.5 percent and achieved near-perfect load-balancing performance.

Subjects :: OpenFlow
General Computer Science
Computer science
business.industry
Distributed computing
020206 networking & telecommunications
02 engineering and technology
Load balancing (computing)
Hash tree
Load management
Server
Chaining
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Process control
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
business
Software-defined networking
Computer network

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