Intelligent Congestion Control of 5G Traffic in SDN using Dual-Spike Neural Network

Software Defined Networking (SDN) with centralized control provides a global view and achieves efficient network resources management. However, using centralized controllers has several limitations related to scalability and performance, especially with the exponential growth of 5G communication. This paper proposes a novel traffic scheduling algorithm to avoid congestion in the control plane. The Packet-In messages received from different 5G devices are classified into two classes: critical and non-critical 5G communication by adopting Dual-Spike Neural Networks (DSNN) classifier and implementing it on a Virtualized Network Function (VNF). Dual spikes identify each class to increase the reliability of the classification. Different metrics have been adopted to evaluate the proposed classifier's effectiveness: accuracy, precision, recall, Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), and F1-Score. Compared with a convolutional neural network (CNN), the simulation results confirmed that the DSNN model could enhance traffic classification accuracy by 5%. The efficiency of the priority model also has been demonstrated in terms of Round Trip Time (RTT)

Moderately Multispike Return Neural Network for SDN Accurate Traffic Awareness in Effective 5G Network Slicing

Due to the huge variety of 5G services, Network slicing is promising mechanism for dividing the physical network resources in to multiple logical network slices according to the requirements of each user. Highly accurate and fast traffic classification algorithm is required to ensure better Quality of Service (QoS) and effective network slicing. Fine-grained resource allocation can be realized by Software Defined Networking (SDN) with centralized controlling of network resources. However, the relevant research activities have concentrated on the deep learning systems which consume enormous computation and storage requirements of SDN controller that results in limitations of speed and accuracy of traffic classification mechanism. To fill this gap, this paper proposes Intelligent SDN Multi Spike Neural System (IMSNS) by implementing Moderately Multi-Spike Return Neural Networks (MMSRNN) controller with time based coding achieving remarkable reduction on energy consumption and accurate traffic identification to predict the most appropriate network slice. In addition, this paper proposes another intelligent Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) controller for load balancing and slice failure condition. The current researchers have adopted the: accuracy, precision, recall and F1-Score, the simulation results revealed that the proposed model could provide the accurate 5G network slicing as compared with a convolutional neural network (CNN) by 5%