Abstract
In Software-Defined Network (SDN) with multiple controllers, static mapping relationship between switches and controllers may cause some controllers to be overloaded, while some controller resources are underutilized. A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based switch migration strategy (DRL-SMS) is proposed to solve the load imbalance problem in the multi-controller control plane. Based on Markov Decision Process (MDP), modeling analysis is performed for SDN to obtain system state, migration action set, and system reward. Q-values of switch migration actions are obtained by fitting approximate function using Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN), and then the DDQN is trained by using the experience replay mechanism to optimize Q-Network parameters. After training, the DRL-based strategy calculates the Q-value in the current system state and selects the migration action corresponding to the maximum Q-value to perform switch migration. Simulation experiments show that DRL-SMS can effectively balance the controller load and significantly reduce the balance time.
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