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A Multi-Domain VNE Algorithm Based on Load Balancing in the IoT Networks

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The coordinated development of big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing and other technologies has led to an exponential growth in Internet business. However, the traditional Internet architecture gradually shows a rigid phenomenon due to the binding of the network structure and the hardware. In a high-traffic environment, it has been insufficient to meet people’s increasing service quality requirements. Network virtualization is considered to be an effective method to solve the rigidity of the Internet. Among them, virtual network embedding is one of the key problems of network virtualization. Since virtual network mapping is an NP-hard problem, a large number of research has focused on the evolutionary algorithm’s masterpiece genetic algorithm. However, the parameter setting in the traditional method is too dependent on experience, and its low flexibility makes it unable to adapt to increasingly complex network environments. In addition, link-mapping strategies that do not consider load balancing can easily cause link blocking in high-traffic environments. In the IoT environment involving medical, disaster relief, life support and other equipment, network performance and stability are particularly important. Therefore, how to provide a more flexible virtual network mapping service in a heterogeneous network environment with large traffic is an urgent problem. Aiming at this problem, a virtual network mapping strategy based on hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed. This strategy uses a dynamically calculated cross-probability and pheromone-based mutation gene selection strategy to improve the flexibility of the algorithm. In addition, a weight update mechanism based on load balancing is introduced to reduce the probability of mapping failure while balancing the load. Simulation results show that the proposed method performs well in a number of performance metrics including mapping average quotation, link load balancing, mapping cost-benefit ratio, acceptance rate and running time.

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This work is partially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2020YFB1804800, partially supported by the Major Scientific and Technological Projects of CNPC under Grant ZD2019-183-006, and partially supported by Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation under Grant ZR2020MF006. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of the reviewers, which have improved the presentation.

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  1. College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266580, China

    Peiying Zhang & Fanglin Liu

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Chunxiao Jiang

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Avignon, LIA CERI, Avignon, France

    Abderrahim Benslimane

  4. College of Network Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Carrer de Jordi Girona, Barcelona, 1, 3, 08034, Spain

    Juan-Luis Gorricho & Joan Serrat-Fernández

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Zhang, P., Liu, F., Jiang, C. et al. A Multi-Domain VNE Algorithm Based on Load Balancing in the IoT Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 27, 124–138 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-020-01714-0

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