UDC 004.72
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF MULTIPATH ROUTING AND DATA
FLOWS LOAD BALANCING PROCESSES IN SOFTWARE DEFINED
NETWORKS BASED ON GENETIC ALGORITHM
D. A. Perepelkin, Dr. Sc. (Tech.), associate professor, Dean of FCE, RSREU, Ryazan, Russia;
orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-5745, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
V. T. Nguyen, master student, RSREU, Russia;
orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-5775, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Currently to ensure the quality of network services and applications, a new technology of computer networks
has gained wide popularity – software defined networks (SDN). SDN provide flexibility in managing
data flows through a centralized view of the entire network and the ability to program network services. To
ensure the quality of service of multimedia content, voice, video traffic and other highly loaded applications,
the most effective mechanism is the use of methods, principles and algorithms of multipath routing and load
balancing in the network. The aim of the work is research and analysis of the processes of multipath routing
and data flows load balancing in software defined networks based on a genetic algorithm. The conducted
studies show that the use of a genetic algorithm in the SDN makes it possible to increase the efficiency of
multipath routing and data flows load balancing processes, as well as to reduce jitter and transmission delay
in the network.
Key words: software defined networks, multipath routing, load balancing, OpenFlow protocol, genetic algorithm.