Time-Dependent Performance of a Multi-Hop Software Defined Network

TitleTime-Dependent Performance of a Multi-Hop Software Defined Network
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsCzachórski T, Gelenbe E, Kuaban GSuila, Marek D
JournalApplied Sciences
Volume11
Issue2469
Start Page1-21
Date Published03/2021
KeywordsDiffusion Approximation, Internet Traffic, quality of service (QoS), SDN switch
Abstract

It has been recently observed that Software Defined Networks (SDN) can change the
paths of different connections in the network at a relatively frequent pace to improve the overall
network performance, including delay and packet loss, or to respond to other needs such as security.
These changes mean that a network that SDN controls will seldom operate in steady state; rather,
the network may often be in transient mode, especially when the network is heavily loaded and
path changes are critically important. Hence, we propose a transient analysis of such networks to
better understand how frequent changes in paths and the switches’ workloads may affect multi-hop
networks’ performance. Since conventional queueing models are difficult to solve for transient
behaviour and simulations take excessive computation time due to the need for statistical accuracy,
we use a diffusion approximation to study a multi-hop network controlled by SDN. The results show
that network optimization should consider the transient effects of SDN and that transients need to be
included in the design of algorithms for SDN controllers that optimize network performance.

URLhttps://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci
DOI10.3390/app11062469

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