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Table 7 Characteristics of allocation-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

6LoWPAN

Response time, reliability

Centralized

Gateways

Multi-criteria decision/ allocation

SDN-Fog

2020

[28]

Game

Delay, resource utilization

Distributed

Cloud servers

Allocation

SDN-Cloud

2020

[47]

5G

Load balancing

Distributed

Controllers

Allocation

SDN-5G

2022

[92]

Vehicles

Delay

Distributed

Cloud, Fog servers

Allocation

SDN-IoV

2022

[93]

5G

Bandwidth, response time, delay, packet loss

Distributed

Controllers

Allocation

SDN- IoT

2023

[94]

-

Cost, response time, energy consumption, CPU utilization

Centralized

Cloud servers

Allocation

SDN- IoT

2023

[95]