A Software-Defined Cloud Resource Management Framework

Network systems employ policies that are inherently dynamic in nature and that depend on temporal conditions defined in terms of external events such as the measurement of bandwidth, use of hosts, intrusion detection or specific time events. Software-defined networking (SDN) offers the opportunity to make networks easier to configure by providing richer configuration methods. To reduce network monitoring costs and traffic overheads, herein, we propose a software-defined cloud resource management framework that uses a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (Fuzzy-AHP) to customize the network resource allocation. The framework can be incorporated into SDN-enabled cloud infrastructures by using an Application Program Interface (API). Using real-time data, we demonstrate that our framework can improve network resource management and is capable of handling increasing traffic requests. We also validate our framework efficiency through simulations.