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Table 3 Characteristics of offloading-based 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

5G

Delay, resource utilization, throughput

Centralized

Network cells

Offloading

SDN-WiFi

2015

[49]

Mobile devices

Throughput, load-balancing

Centralized

Cloudlets

Offloading

SDN- Cloudlet

2020

[7]

Vehicles, 5G

Response time, throughput

Centralized

Fog server

Offloading

SDN-Fog

2021

[29]

-

Resource utilization, delay

Centralized

Edge servers

Offloading

SD- Block Edge

2022

[85]