Traffic-Aware Load Balancing for M2M Networks Using SDN

Abstract

To relieve the heavy loading caused by burst machine-to-machine (M2M) traffic and also satisfy various quality of service (QoS) requirements, load balancing techniques are often introduced in M2M networks. In recent years, software-defined networking (SDN) has shown the possibility of improving load balancing technique. In this paper, we propose traffic-aware load balancing mechanism for M2M networks using SDN. The proposed mechanism can satisfy different QoS requirements of M2M traffic by instant traffic identification and dynamic traffic rerouting, which leverage the capability of SDN to dynamically monitor and control the entire network.