Abstract
The proliferation of cloud data center applications and network function virtualization (NFV) boosts dynamic and QoS dependent traffic into the data centers network. Currently, lots of network routing protocols are requirement agnostic, while other QoS-aware protocols are computationally complex and inefficient for small flows. In this paper, a computationally efficient congestion avoidance scheme, called CECT, for software-defined cloud data centers is proposed. The proposed algorithm, CECT, not only minimizes network congestion but also reallocates the resources based on the flow requirements. To this end, we use a routing architecture to reconfigure the network resources triggered by two events: 1) the elapsing of a predefined time interval, or, 2) the occurrence of congestion. Moreover, a forwarding table entries compression technique is used to reduce the computational complexity of CECT. In this way, we mathematically formulate an optimization problem and define a genetic algorithm to solve the proposed optimization problem. We test the proposed algorithm on real-world network traffic. Our results show that CECT is computationally fast and the solution is feasible in all cases. In order to evaluate our algorithm in term of throughput, CECT is compared with ECMP (where the shortest path algorithm is used as the cost function). Simulation results confirm that the throughput obtained by running CECT is improved up to 3x compared to ECMP while packet loss is decreased up to 2x.
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