Fault tolerance is an important aspect of network resilience. Fault-tolerance mechanisms are required to ensure high availability and high reliability in different environments. e beginning of software-defined networking (SDN) has both presented new challenges and opened a new era to develop new strategies, standards, and architectures to support fault tolerance. In this paper, a study of fault tolerance is performed for two architectures: (1) a single master with multiple slave controllers and (2) multiple slave controllers. e proposed model is called a Generic Controller Adaptive Load Balancing (GCALB) model for SDNs. GCALB adapts the load among slave controllers based on a GCALB algorithm. Mininet simulation tool is utilized for the experimentation phase. Controllers are implemented using floodlights. Experiment results were conducted using GCALB when master controller is taking the responsibility of distributing switches among four and five slave controllers as a case study. roughput and response time metrics are used to measure performance. GCALB is compared with two reference algorithms: (1) HyperFlow (Kreutz et al., 2012), and (2) Enhanced Controller Fault Tolerant (ECFT) (Aly and Al-anazi, 2018). Results are promising as the performance of GCALB increased by 15% and 12% when compared to HyperFlow and by 13% and 10% when compared to ECFT in terms of throughput and response time.
In this study, acoustic wave scattering in a homogeneous media by an obstacle is examined in the case of plane wave excitation and the formation of acoustic jets is explored. Spectral element method (SEM) is employed for the approximate solution of scattered acoustic waves’ calculations. An important finding of the study is the concurrence of whispering gallery modes and acoustic jet in the case of proper adjustment of structural parameters, which has not been reported before in the literature. Furthermore, numerical findings based on SEM calculations show that the main characteristics of acoustic jet can be explored and controlled by changing the targeted parameters. Microscopy and imaging applications utilizing acoustic wave can benefit from the conducted study presented in this manuscript.
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