Implementation and Comparative Analysis of Static and Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithms in SDN

In the contemporary years, the Internet usage has full-fledged and has made the advance of networking techniques to accomplish the necessities of better bandwidth, throughput and less latency. Software defined networking (SDN) is a technique which organizes the network functions intellectually by using software applications. One of the foremost challenges is load balancing amongst the manifold servers. Most of the applications cannot be performed well without employing load balancers. The existing load balancing mechanisms are basically either of two types: Static and Dynamic. In this paper the performance of static and dynamic load balancing algorithms are scrutinized. The simulation results of few static algorithms and a Dynamic algorithm are exposed in this paper. The relative analysis of the results of Static and Dynamic load balancing algorithms based on latency, throughput, Packet Delivery Ratio and Packet loss percentage are primed in this paper.