Software-Defined Networking (SDN), enabled by OpenFlow, represents a paradigm shift from traditional network to the future Internet. Replicate or distributed controllers have been proposed to address the issues of availability and scalability that a centralized controller suffers from. However, it lacks a flexible mechanism to balance load among distributed controllers. To address this problem, this paper presents DALB, a dynamic and adaptive algorithm for controller load balancing totally based on distributed architecture, without any centralized component. This algorithm is running as a module of SDN controller. On one hand, it adopts an adjustable load collection threshold so as to reduce the overhead of exchanging messages for load collection, and on the other hand it can make policy and election locality in order to reduce the decision delay caused by network transmission. In this paper, we build the prototype system on floodlight to demonstrate our design and test the performance of our algorithm.
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