Flow-level load balancing of HTTP traffic using open flow

Anees Al-Najjar; Siamak Layeghy; Marius Portmann; Jadwiga Indulska

doi:10.18080/ajtde.v6n4.166

Flow-level load balancing of HTTP traffic using open flow

Anees Al-Najjar
, Siamak Layeghy
, Marius Portmann
, Jadwiga Indulska

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	75-95
Number of pages	21
Journal	Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18080/ajtde.v6n4.166
State	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Load Balancing
Multi-homed Devices
Software Defined Networking
Video Streaming Traffic
Web Traffic Optimisation

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