Open AccessFlow-level Load Balancing of HTTP Traffic using OpenFlow
Author(s) -
Anees Al-Najjar,
Marius Portmann,
Siamak Layeghy,
Jadwiga Indulska
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of telecommunications and the digital economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2203-1693
DOI - 10.18080/jtde.v6n4.166
Subject(s) - openflow , load balancing (electrical power) , computer science , flow (mathematics) , computer network , traffic flow (computer networking) , distributed computing , heavy load , real time computing , software defined networking , engineering , geology , geometry , mathematics , geodesy , structural engineering , grid
In this paper, we explore the concept of flow-based load balancing of network traffic on multi-homed hosts. In contrast to existing approaches such as MultipathTCP, our approach is a client-side-only solution, and can therefore easily be deployed. We specifically explore flow-based load balancing for web and video traffic use cases. Experimental evaluations of our OpenFlow-based load balancer demonstrate the potential of flow-based load balancing.