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<p>The escalating concerns over energy consumption, carbon emissions, and environmental sustainability present critical challenges for large-scale data networks. Software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a solution, offering a paradigm shift with its centralized controller and separation of control and data planes. This paper delves into energy-efficient controller placement within SDN infrastructures to minimize active link utilization while meeting traffic demands and latency requirements. Heuristic algorithms provide an effective approach for tackling NP-hard problems such as energy-efficient controller placement (EHACP). To address this, three heuristic methods are evaluated: genetic algorithms (EHACP-GA), grey wolf optimization algorithm (EHACP-GWA), and harmony search algorithm (EHACP-HSA). Through a thorough analysis of real network topologies, this study demonstrates the efficacy of EHACP-HSA in attaining substantial energy savings, often surpassing 45% across several scenarios, while considerably minimizing the number of active links compared to other competing algorithms. In the AT &amp; T network, EHACP-HSA achieves energy savings of up to 69.64%, alongside an approximate 15% decrease in active links relative to Greco and an 11% reduction compared to the enhanced genetic algorithm (EHACP-EGA), indicating its effectiveness in reducing active link usage. EHACP-GWA confirms its stability in latency performance by consistently exhibiting smaller latency gaps than EHACP-HSA, with an average gap of <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(-\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mo>-</mo> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation>0.0012 and a low standard deviation. The results demonstrate that EHACP-HSA is the preferred choice for scenarios emphasizing energy efficiency and faster computation, whereas EHACP-GWA is better-suited for latency-sensitive applications.</p>

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Energy-Efficient Controller Placement in Software-Defined Networks: A Heuristic Approach

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    2025年9月7日

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  • Sagarika Mohanty,
  • Bibhudatta Sahoo

摘要

The escalating concerns over energy consumption, carbon emissions, and environmental sustainability present critical challenges for large-scale data networks. Software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a solution, offering a paradigm shift with its centralized controller and separation of control and data planes. This paper delves into energy-efficient controller placement within SDN infrastructures to minimize active link utilization while meeting traffic demands and latency requirements. Heuristic algorithms provide an effective approach for tackling NP-hard problems such as energy-efficient controller placement (EHACP). To address this, three heuristic methods are evaluated: genetic algorithms (EHACP-GA), grey wolf optimization algorithm (EHACP-GWA), and harmony search algorithm (EHACP-HSA). Through a thorough analysis of real network topologies, this study demonstrates the efficacy of EHACP-HSA in attaining substantial energy savings, often surpassing 45% across several scenarios, while considerably minimizing the number of active links compared to other competing algorithms. In the AT & T network, EHACP-HSA achieves energy savings of up to 69.64%, alongside an approximate 15% decrease in active links relative to Greco and an 11% reduction compared to the enhanced genetic algorithm (EHACP-EGA), indicating its effectiveness in reducing active link usage. EHACP-GWA confirms its stability in latency performance by consistently exhibiting smaller latency gaps than EHACP-HSA, with an average gap of \(-\) - 0.0012 and a low standard deviation. The results demonstrate that EHACP-HSA is the preferred choice for scenarios emphasizing energy efficiency and faster computation, whereas EHACP-GWA is better-suited for latency-sensitive applications.