Gossip-Based Topology Management Protocol for Self-Organizing Overlays

Gossip-based protocols have attracted more and more attention because of their simplicity and reliability.They can be applied to large-scale overlays for solving problems such as topology management,information dissemination,and aggregation.However,previous works sample nodes by their indegrees,without considering the differences in capability among nodes,and result in losing global load balancing.This paper proposes a load balancing gossip protocol for self-organizing overlays-LBTMP(Load-Balancing Topology Management Protocol),which takes into account the differences in capability among nodes and real loads.The novel protocol takes remainder service ability as the determinant for node selection metric,making light loading nodes from local neighbor view as returned samples preferentially.In the meantime,LBTMP selects light loading nodes preferentially for topology information exchange,which can diffuse light loading nodes over the whole overlay more quickly.Simulations show that returned sample node selection is biased to light loading nodes in a global view,and the overlay tends to load balancing.

A Controller-Based Architecture for Information Centric Network Construction and Topology management

Information-Centric Networking(ICN) has recently emerged as a result of the increased demand to access contents regardless of their location in the network services. This new approach facilitates content distribution as a service of the network with lower delay and higher security in comparison with the current IP network. Applying ICN in current IP infrastructure leads to major complexities. One approach to deploy ICN with less complexity is to integrate ICN with Software Defined Networking(SDN). The SDN controller manages the content distribution, caching, and routing based on the users' requests. In this paper, we extend these context by addressing the ICN topology management problem over the SDN network to achieve an improved user experience as well as network performance. In particular, a centralized controller is designed to construct and manage the ICN overlay. Experimental results indicate that this adopted topology management strategy achieves high performance, in terms of low failure in interest satisfaction and reduced download time compared to a plain ICN.

Mobility-Aware and Load Balancing Based Clustering Algorithm for Energy Conservation in MANET

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is one of wireless communication network architecture that has received a lot of attention. MANET is characterized by dynamic network topology and limited energy. With mobility-aware and load balancing based clustering algorithm (MLCA), this paper proposes a new topology management strategy to conserve energy. Performance simulation results show that the proposed MLCA strategy can balances the traffic load inside the whole network, so as to prolong the network lifetime, meanly, at the same time, achieve higher throughput ratio and network stability.