Author(s)

Traoré Issa¹, Zamblé Raoul², Adama Konaté^2,3, Joël Christian Adepo^3,4, Bernard Cousin⁵, Asseu Olivier^2,3

¹Felix Houphouet-Boigny University, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
²African Higher School of ICT Abidjan, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
³National Polytechnic Institute Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire.
⁴Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France.
⁵Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France.

The Software Defined Network (SDN) is a concept based on a decoupling between the control plan and the data plan of a network. Thus, the network becomes programmable and can be coupled to the business applications of the users. The study that is discussed in this article looks at load planning and balancing in distributed controllers. To do this, a model and theoretical methods of performance evaluation related to appropriate software tools, to predict and control the quality of service offered to users is exposed. This paper exposed also a distributed architecture of controllers and then a module based on an adaptive load balancing algorithm that is fault tolerant and fluctuates controller loads. The experiments show a significant gain in efficiency of our solution.

Open Flow, Load Balancing, Decision Distributed, Software Defined Network, Analysis, Architecture

Issa, T. , Raoul, Z. , Konaté, A. , Adepo, J. , Cousin, B. and Olivier, A. (2018) Analytical Load Balancing Model in Distributed Open Flow Controller System. Engineering, 10, 863-875. doi: 10.4236/eng.2018.1012060.