Abstract: Network virtualization provides a powerful way of sharing substrate networks. Efficient allocation of network resources for multiple virtual networks (VNs) has always been a challenging task. In particular, with the demands of the customized VN requests are increasing, many problems arise as network conditions change dynamically. Especially, when the resources conflicting appear during the lifetime of VNs, it needs service provider (SP) to provide a fast and effective solution. Recently, software defined network (SDN) has emerged as a new networking paradigm, SDN’s centralized control and customizable routing features present new opportunities for convenient and flexible embedding VNs in the network. However, due to the limitations of the SDN, in the short term, replacing
all legacy devices in current operational networks by SDN-enabled switches is impractical. Thus, in our study, we focus on the scenario of VN embedding (VNE) in software-defined hybrid networks. In this work, first of all, we propose partially deploying SDN nodes, and then, we use the characteristics of SDN to allocate resources for VN requests, and redirect the path for requests conflict in hybrid SDN network. We formulate the problems and provide simple algorithms to solve them. Simulation results show that our scheme is high responsiveness and acceptance ratio.

Key words: SDN, hybrid network, VNE