SDN-based load balancing strategy for server cluster

Abstract

Growing network traffic brings huge pressure to the server cluster. Using load balancing technology in server cluster becomes the choice of most enterprises. Because of many limitations, the development of the traditional load balancing technology has encountered bottlenecks. This has forced companies to find new load balancing method. Software Defined Network (SDN) provides a good method to solve the load balancing problem. In this paper, we implemented two load balancing algorithm that based on the latest SDN network architecture. The first one is a static scheduling algorithm and the second is a dynamic scheduling algorithm. Our experiments show that the performance of the dynamic algorithm is better than the static algorithm.