Survey of Load balancing mechanisms based on SDN in 5G/IMT-2020
Behrooz Daneshmand
15m
The growing number of mobile devices and the demand for user data by 2030 are expected to put pressure on the current mobile network in an unprecedented way. Future mobile networks must have several requirements regarding data amount, latency, quality of service and experience, mobility, spectrum and energy efficiency. Therefore, efforts have recently begun for more efficient mobile network solutions. To this end, load balancing has attracted much attention as a promising solution for greater resource utilization, improved system performance, and reduced operating costs. This is an effective way to balance traffic and reduce congestion in heterogeneous networks in future 5G/IMT-2020 networks. Load Balancing is one of the most important tasks required to maximize network performance, scalability and robustness. Nowadays, with the emergence of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Load Balancing for SDN has become a very important issue in future network 5G/IMT-2020 . SDN allows for load balancers that are programmable and provides the flexibility for one to design and implement own load balancing strategies. In this survey, we highlight the methods of load balancing based on SDN networks and prospective load balancing requirements on 5G networks .