رئیس دانشکده مهندسی برق و کامپیوتر مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز 2008-7799 52 4 2022 12 22 ESV-DBRA: An enhanced method for proportional distribution of the multitenant SDN traffic load ESV-DBRA: An enhanced method for proportional distribution of the multitenant SDN traffic load 269 280 15801 10.22034/tjee.2023.15801 FA آرش قربان نیا دلاور Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Payame Noor University (PNU), P.O. Box 19395-4697, Tehran, Iran. کیوان بیگی Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Payame Noor University (PNU), P.O. Box 19395-4697, Tehran, Iran. Journal Article 2022 06 20 One of the obvious reasons for most disorders in network service provisioning is network path congestion. Congestion avoidance in today's networks is too costly and sometimes impossible. With the introduction of SDN, centralizing the equipment's control plane has become possible. This paper presents an enhanced method named ESV-DBRA to avoid congestion in multi-tenant SDN networks. At first, ESV-DBRA monitors the traffic load and delay of all network paths for each tenant individually. Then, by merging the parameters obtained from the monitoring, the Service Level Agreements (SLA), and a novel proposed cost function, it calculates the cost of the network paths per tenant. As a result, traffic for each tenant is routed through the path/paths at the lowest possible cost from the tenant's perspective. Next, the bandwidth quotas will be calculated and assigned to the tenants over their optimal routes. Afterward, whenever congestion is likely to occur in a path, ESV-DBRA automatically changes the route or bandwidth of the tenants' traffic related to this path to avoid congestion. Related algorithms are also proposed.<br />Eventually, simulations show that the proposed method effectively increases bandwidth utilization by 10.76%. One of the obvious reasons for most disorders in network service provisioning is network path congestion. Congestion avoidance in today's networks is too costly and sometimes impossible. With the introduction of SDN, centralizing the equipment's control plane has become possible. This paper presents an enhanced method named ESV-DBRA to avoid congestion in multi-tenant SDN networks. At first, ESV-DBRA monitors the traffic load and delay of all network paths for each tenant individually. Then, by merging the parameters obtained from the monitoring, the Service Level Agreements (SLA), and a novel proposed cost function, it calculates the cost of the network paths per tenant. As a result, traffic for each tenant is routed through the path/paths at the lowest possible cost from the tenant's perspective. Next, the bandwidth quotas will be calculated and assigned to the tenants over their optimal routes. Afterward, whenever congestion is likely to occur in a path, ESV-DBRA automatically changes the route or bandwidth of the tenants' traffic related to this path to avoid congestion. Related algorithms are also proposed.<br />Eventually, simulations show that the proposed method effectively increases bandwidth utilization by 10.76%. https://tjee.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_15801_281c5f8057fa93a21b2932a81cee77c3.pdf