Green Multi-Stage Upgrade for Bundled-Link SDNs with Budget and Delay Constraints
Publication Name
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
Abstract
Upgrading a legacy network to a Software Defined Network in stages, and minimizing the energy consumption of a network are now of great interest to operators. To this end, this paper addresses a novel problem: minimize the energy consumption of a network by upgrading switches over multiple stages subject to the available monetary budget at each stage. Our problem considers (i) bundled links that can be powered-off individually, (ii) decreasing upgrade cost and increasing traffic demands over multiple stages, and (iii) rerouting demands to an alternative path with a delay that is within a predefined limit. Additionally, the link load on the path is no larger than a given maximum utilization. We formulate the problem as an Integer Linear Program and propose a greedy heuristic called Green Multi-Stage Switch Upgrade (GMSU). Experiment results on five actual network topologies show that: (i) our approaches reduce the energy consumption by up to 73.98%, (ii) rerouting traffic demand via longer paths improves the energy saving by up to 9.6%, (iii) GMSU produces results that are at most 4.83% from the optimal result, and (iv) increasing the budget and the number of stages affect the total energy saved and the number of upgraded switches.
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