Placement of Controllers in Software Defined Networking under Multiple Controller Mapping

Abstract

This work focuses on the placement of controllers in software-defined networking architectures. A mathematical model is developed to place controllers under multi- controller switch-controller mapping, where a switch can be assigned to multiple controllers. Resiliency, scalability, and inter-plane latency are all modeled in the proposed model. A scalability factor is introduced to increase the load to capacity gap at controllers, preventing controllers to work near their capacity limit. The proposed model is shown to be effective and resilient under different failure scenarios while, at the same time, taking latency and scalability into consideration. Keywords: Controller Placement, Software-defined Networking, Reliability, Scalability