Poster: Application-Aware Load Migration Protocols for Network Controllers

Load migration protocols have been used for load balancing in network controllers. In this poster, we argue that other network applications (e.g., power saving, network security, failure recovery, etc.) have properties that might require different load migration protocols. We introduce four new load migration protocols and show how they might match different application requirements better. We present preliminary experimental results for one of these protocols that show more than 20%-30% speedup in the total load migration time.