An Efficient Distributed Approach for Load Balancing in IoT Based on SDN Principles

Internet of things is a new technology which is heavily affecting different aspects of human life. The number of smart devices connecting to IoT and the amount of data gathered or produced by these devices are increasing. In order to organize, secure and analyse the IoT data, novel and creative ideas for IoT design and management are required. Software Defined Networking is a new and promising paradigm. Its main idea is to decouple the control functions from physical devices and set them inside a logically centralized control layer. In this paper, a distributed approach is proposed for accelerating data management and balancing the load between IoT devices based on SDN principles. The proposed framework makes it possible to apply different management strategies in a distributed manner. Experimental results indicate that our scheme distributes tasks between devices equally and exhibits a reduction in the average turnaround time and the average waiting time and it will improve the processing performance.