Defining Network Switch Preference by Network Traffic Using Stable Marriage Problem

A network switch is an important network device on a computer network, the role of a switch can determine the good and bad of a network service. In a data center, sometimes it has several switch devices with different capabilities (diversity). For this reason, we need a strategy to carry out the effectiveness of using switch devices on computer networks. One way that can be done to realize this is by choosing the right partner between switches and hosts. The matching theory makes it possible to overcome this problem. In this study, it was simulated using the Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) method. The initial state to determine the ranking of pairs is done by using several attributes that are owned by each switch and host such as interfaces, services on the host, and data traffic on the device. Simulations are performed on mininet using Software-defined networking (SDN).