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Table 10 Characteristics of other reviewed load balancing techniques

From: An overview of QoS-aware load balancing techniques in SDN-based IoT networks

Application

Objectives

Architecture

Balance entity

LB method

Network type

Year

Ref

SG,

Industry

Delay, packet delivery ratio

Centralized

Infrastructure

Demand response

SDN- AMI

2018

[99]

Critical scenarios

Response time, packet loss ratio

Centralized

Gateways

Flow change

SDN- FoT

2018

[30]

5G

Resource utilization, overhead

Centralized

Network slices

Network Function virtualization

SDN-NFV

2020

[100]

Vehicles

Delay

Centralized

Cloud, Edge servers

Aggregation

SDN- Edge/Cloud

2020

[5]

Smart City, Industry

Delay, packet delivery ratio, packet loss ratio

Distributed

Access points

Admission control

SDHW-IoT

2021

[101]

Industry

Energy consumption, cost, run time

Centralized

Edge nodes

Placement of tasks

SDN-Cloud

2021

[6]

-

Delay, load-balancing

Distributed

Controllers

Controller placement

SD-IoT

2022

[102]