A New BGP-based Load Distribution Approach in Geographically Distributed Data Centers

Today, hosting services in geographically distributed data centers is very common among service provider companies, because of more efficiency of energy consumption, high availability of the system, and providing quality of service. Load distribution is the main issue in the geographical data centers. On the one hand, there are several architectures to distribute load between different clusters, e.g., central load balancer, DNS-based systems, and IGP based schemes; one the other hand, the optimum traffic load balancing between clusters is a very challengeable issue. The proposed solutions have different facilities to distribute incoming traffic; nevertheless, they are vulnerable in terms of propagation delay, centralized load balancer failure, and maintaining connections. In this paper, a new architecture based on BGP and Anycast routing protocols in SDN based data centers is proposed to distribute traffic loads between clusters. Simulation result shows improvement in comparison to the existing techniques.