QROUTE: An efficient Quality of Service (QoS) routing scheme for software defined overlay networks

Many computer network applications impose constraints for multiple quality of service (QoS) metrics, e.g., delay, packet loss, bandwidth, and jitter. These QoS constraints cannot be guaranteed by the Internet due to its best-effort service model. Overlay networks have been an effective technique at the application layer to support multiple QoS constraints of networking applications. In software-defined overlay networks, software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm is introduced in the overlay networks to enable centralized and efficient routing of traffic in the overlay networks, thus, enabling better QoS. One of the main challenges in software-defined overlay networks is the fast-changing overlay link QoS characteristics. However, the existing routing algorithms for satisfying multiple QoS constraints in software-defined overlay networks involve high route computation time and thus these routing algorithms cannot adapt …