Energy Awake Network Traffic Steering Using SDN in Cloud Environment

The energy consumed by the networking resources to access the computational and storage resources is one of the factors to be considered in the cloud data center. In SDN, the network virtualization showcases the business in the network resource allocation when traffic is generated from the source host to the destination host. The network switches in the cloud based data centric network acquire the most energy during the traffic flow from source to destination. In this paper, an Energy Efficient Routing Through Open Virtual Switches (EERTOVS) algorithm is proposed to route the traffic efficiently in the power-optimal selected path. The proposed algorithm was implemented using Open Flow Protocol in the forthcoming development of Software Defined Networks. Thereby, the network management entails the improvement in energy conservation with tolerable level of compromising the network performance.