Software-Defined Networking: A Traffic Engineering Approach

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is the new networking approach that overcomes the obstacles that are faced by the conventional networking paradigm. The core idea of SDN is to separate the control plane from the data plane. This idea improves the network in many ways such as efficient utilization of resources, management of the network, innovation with new evolution, reduced cost, and many others. To manage all these changes, there is a great need for an efficient traffic engineering tool to improve the utilization of resources for the better performance of the network. Traffic engineering is also responsible for the analysis and monitoring of real-time data traffic. This paper mainly focuses on the structure of traffic engineering in SDN. In addition, the scope of various parameters of traffic engineering in the SDN environment and setup experimentations are also demonstrated. Hence, this work can leverage traffic engineering in the environment of SDN to enhance the network for better use in the future.