Adaptive load balance scheme for the distributed control plane in SDN

Yuwen ZHOU; Bangbang REN; Junjie XIE; Zhi ZHOU; Xu CHEN; Zhiguang CHEN; Deke GUO

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Front. Comput. Sci. ›› 2026, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (9) : 2009503 DOI: 10.1007/s11704-025-41400-6

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Adaptive load balance scheme for the distributed control plane in SDN

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Yuwen ZHOU, Bangbang REN, Junjie XIE, Zhi ZHOU, Xu CHEN, Zhiguang CHEN, Deke GUO. Adaptive load balance scheme for the distributed control plane in SDN. Front. Comput. Sci., 2026, 20(9): 2009503 DOI:10.1007/s11704-025-41400-6

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