Software defined networking based load balancer / Fatma Nazihah W. Hashim

As the number of network applications, devices and technologies used were increasing rapidly over the past years, resource control and network management are becoming challenging issues in maintaining network performance. Load balancing is crucial in order to allocate massive workload across many no...

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Main Author:	W. Hashim, Fatma Nazihah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Wireless communication systems Mobile communication systems Access control Computer network protocols
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/68622/1/68622.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.686222022-12-13T03:42:27Z Software defined networking based load balancer / Fatma Nazihah W. Hashim 2016 W. Hashim, Fatma Nazihah Wireless communication systems. Mobile communication systems. Access control Computer network protocols As the number of network applications, devices and technologies used were increasing rapidly over the past years, resource control and network management are becoming challenging issues in maintaining network performance. Load balancing is crucial in order to allocate massive workload across many nodes in the network. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising platform to build load balancer as it enables fast application deployment and delivery, thus reducing IT costs through policyenabled workflow automation. This paper focus on the design of a SDN based server load balancing application that will handle traffic load flowing into the system. The completed system is simulated on POX controller, an OpenFlow switch and three set of network topologies consisting the same number of hosts but different number of clients. Results show that round robin based load balancer yield better average response time and network bandwidth utilization, but shows^ tradeoff in the aspect of CPU utilization. 2016 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/68622/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/68622/1/68622.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Electrical Engineering Md Zan, Md Mahfudz
institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language	English
advisor	Md Zan, Md Mahfudz
topic	Wireless communication systems Mobile communication systems Access control Computer network protocols
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description	As the number of network applications, devices and technologies used were increasing rapidly over the past years, resource control and network management are becoming challenging issues in maintaining network performance. Load balancing is crucial in order to allocate massive workload across many nodes in the network. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising platform to build load balancer as it enables fast application deployment and delivery, thus reducing IT costs through policyenabled workflow automation. This paper focus on the design of a SDN based server load balancing application that will handle traffic load flowing into the system. The completed system is simulated on POX controller, an OpenFlow switch and three set of network topologies consisting the same number of hosts but different number of clients. Results show that round robin based load balancer yield better average response time and network bandwidth utilization, but shows^ tradeoff in the aspect of CPU utilization.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	W. Hashim, Fatma Nazihah
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title	Software defined networking based load balancer / Fatma Nazihah W. Hashim
title_short	Software defined networking based load balancer / Fatma Nazihah W. Hashim
title_full	Software defined networking based load balancer / Fatma Nazihah W. Hashim
title_fullStr	Software defined networking based load balancer / Fatma Nazihah W. Hashim
title_full_unstemmed	Software defined networking based load balancer / Fatma Nazihah W. Hashim
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department	Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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Software defined networking based load balancer / Fatma Nazihah W. Hashim

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