Flow based power efficient routing for software defined networks

Since traffic diversity and volume increase with growing popularity of mobile applications, there is the strong need to manage the traffic carried by networks. Software defined networking can manage network while enabling new services by employing traffic management whose goal is to maximize the utility objective while satisfying given requirements. In this paper, we propose an efficient routing to minimize the cost based on power consumption determined by the number of active switches in a software defined networks. An optimum solution obtained by genetic algorithm and a reduced complexity routing approach are proposed while satisfying throughput requirements of flows for given constraints on link capacities in the network. We provide the performance evaluations of the proposed algorithms with respect to different throughput constraints of flows in a given network topology.