Dynamic Resource Allocation in Software Defined and Virtual Networks: A Comparative Analysis

Abstract. The increasing user demands for services in Virtual Machines and Cloud computing has made the resource allocation an impossible task to be manually performed by human operators. Software Defined Networks (SDNs) and Virtual Networks have been increasingly getting attention as a way for man-aging these configurations due to the abstraction of the controlling part of the network and its decoupling from the forwarding layer. In this partial paper, we summarize the paradigm of SDNs and Virtual Networks and survey the state-of-the-art of dynamic resource allocation in the field of Virtual Machines and Cloud computing using SDNs and Virtual Networks. 1