Advances, Systems and Applications
Table 9 Characteristics of clustering-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smart city | Delay, throughput | Distributed | Controllers | Clustering | SDN/NFV-IoT | 2020 | [10] |
Vehicles | Delay, accessibility, energy consumption, load-balancing | Distributed | Cloud, Fog servers | Hierarchical clustering | SDN-5G IoV | 2021 | [16] |
Smart city | Communication cost | Distributed | Controllers | Clustering | SDN-IoT | 2021 | [56] |