Quality of Service (QoS)-Guaranteed Network Resource Allocation via Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Quality of Service (QoS) -- based bandwidth allocation plays a key role in real-time computing systems and applications such as voice IP, teleconferencing, and gaming. Likewise, customer services often need to be distinguished according to their service priorities and requirements. In this paper, we consider bandwidth allocation in the networks of a cloud carrier in which cloud users' requests are processed and transferred by a cloud provider subject to QoS requirements. We present a QoS-guaranteed approach for bandwidth allocation that satisfies QoS requirements for all priority cloud users by using Open vSwitch, based on software defined networking (SDN). We implement and test the proposed approach on the Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI). Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.