HSDN‐GRA: A hybrid software‐defined networking‐based geographic routing protocol with multi‐agent approach

Abstract

Summary We propose in this paper a Hybrid Software‐Defined Networking‐based Geographical Routing Protocol (HSDN‐GRA) with a clustering approach. It takes into account three different criteria to select the best relay to send data: (1) the contact duration between vehicles, (2) the available load of each vehicle, (3) and the log of encountered communication errors embedded in each cluster head. The multi‐criteria strategy allows the selection of the most reliable vehicles by avoiding communication problems and ensuring connection availability. Once the hybrid control plane has found out the next eligible neighbor, the data plane will be in charge of dividing and sending data. To validate our approach, HSDN‐GRA has been modeled and implemented in JADE, a multi‐agent platform, to be compared to other multi‐agent based protocols. Simulation results show that HSDN‐GRA achieves good performance with respect to the average routing overhead, the packet drop rate, and the throughput.

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“…Objective Technique Egilmez et al [206] Multimedia delivery Dynamic optimization Ongaro et al [207] Meet service level agreements ILP formulation HiQoS [208] Differentiated services for Multi-path and queuing bandwidth guarantee Sieber et al [209] Simpler configuration of hSDN Unified data model Lin et al [210] Multi-layer hierarchical SDN Minimize signaling delay Bi et al [211] Hybrid industrial network Multipath forwarding Mondal et al [212] Data Flow Management Game theory based scheme Chienhung et al [213] Discover legacy switches Spanning tree protocol Alouache et al [214] Geographical routing multi-criteria strategy Hin et al [215] Energy-aware routing Safely turn off equipment Hin et al [215] propose an algorithm to enable energy aware routing in hSDN. Since in real life, turning off network equipment is a delicate task as it can lead to packet losses, proposed work provides several features to safely enable energy saving services: tunneling for fast rerouting, smooth node disabling and detection of both traffic spikes and link failures.…”