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Software Defined Networking (SDN) offers a flexible and scalable architecture that abstracts decision making away from individual devices and provides a programmable network platform. However, implementing a centralized SDN architecture…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Michael Baddeley , Reza Nejabati , George Oikonomou , Mahesh Sooriyabandara , Dimitra Simeonidou

Software-defined networking (SDN) provides an agile and programmable way to optimize radio access networks via a control-data plane separation. Nevertheless, reaping the benefits of wireless SDN hinges on making optimal use of the limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Chen-Feng Liu , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

The importance of cloud computing has grown over the last years, which resulted in a significant increase of Data Center (DC) network requirements. Virtualisation is one of the key drivers of that transformation and enables a massive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Igor Ivkić , Dominik Thiede , Nicholas Race , Matthew Broadbent , Antonios Gouglidis

SDN divides the networking landscape into 2 parts: control and data plane. SDN expanded it's foot mark starting with OpenFlow based highly flexible control plane and rigid data plane. Innovation and improvement in hardware design and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Debobroto Das Robin , Javed I. Khan

Deploying multiple controllers in the control panel of software-defined networks increases scalability, availability, and performance, but it also brings challenges, such as controller overload. To address this, load-balancing techniques…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Mohammad Kazemiesfeh , Somaye Imanpour , Ahmadreza Montazerolghaem

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controllers are considered as Network Operating Systems (NOSs) and often viewed as a single point of failure. Detecting which SDN controller is managing a target network is a big step for an attacker to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Abdelhadi Azzouni , Othmen Braham , Nguyen Thi Mai Trang , Guy Pujolle , Raouf Boutaba

In software-defined networking (SDN), as data plane scale expands, scalability and reliability of the control plane have become major concerns. To mitigate such concerns, two kinds of solutions have been proposed separately. One is multi-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Xi Huang , Simeng Bian , Ziyu Shao , Hong Xu

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a widely deployed technology enabling the agile and flexible management of networks and services. This paradigm represents an appropriate candidate to address the dynamic and secure management of large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Rafael Marin-Lopez , Oscar Canovas , Gabriel Lopez-Millan , Fernando Pereniguez-Garcia

In this paper, we mainly investigate an integrated system operating under a software defined network (SDN) protocol. SDN is a new networking paradigm in which network intelligence is centrally administered and data is communicated via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Cheng Tan , Wing Shing Wong , Huanshui Zhang

Software-defined networking (SDN) enables advanced operation and management of network deployments through (virtually) centralised, programmable controllers, which deploy network functionality by installing rules in the flow tables of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Vasileios Klimis , George Parisis , Bernhard Reus

Presence of a logically centralized controller in software-defined networks enables smart and fine-grained management of network traffic. Generally, traffic management includes measurement, analysis and control of traffic in order to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Hamidreza Almasi , Hossein Ajorloo

Recently, edge computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to support mobile access in IoT multinetworks. However, coexistence of heterogeneous wireless communication schemes brings about new challenges to the mobility management and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Di Wu , Xiang Nie , Hanhui Deng , Zhijin Qin

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a networking paradigm that has become increasingly popular in the last decade. The unprecedented control over the global behavior of the network it provides opens a range of new opportunities for formal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Elvira Albert , Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa , Miguel Isabel , Albert Rubio , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

Software-defined networking (SDN) technology aims to create a highly flexible network by decoupling control plane and the data plane and programming them independently. There has been a lot of research on improving and optimizing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Altangerel Gereltsetseg , Tejfel Máté

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has raised the boundaries of cloud computing by offering unparalleled levels of control and flexibility to system administrators over their virtualized environments. To properly embrace this new era of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Kaiwen Zhang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Software-defined networking (SDN) is the concept of decoupling the control and data planes to create a flexible and agile network, assisted by a central controller. However, the performance of SDN highly depends on the limitations in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Chen-Feng Liu , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis

Since the early development of Software-Defined Network (SDN) technology, researchers have been concerned with the idea of physical distribution of the control plane to address scalability and reliability challenges of centralized designs.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Konstantinos Poularakis , Qiaofeng Qin , Liang Ma , Sastry Kompella , Kin K. Leung , Leandros Tassiulas

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a programmable approach for provisioning and managing network resources by defining a clear separation between the control and data forwarding planes. Nowadays SDN has gained significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Redowan Mahmud , Adel N. Toosi , Maria Alejandra Rodriguez , Sharat Chandra Madanapalli , Vijay Sivaraman , Len Sciacca , Christos Sioutis , Rajkumar Buyya

Software-defined networking (SDN) has shifted network management by decoupling the data and control planes. This enables programmatic control via software applications using open APIs. SDN's programmability has fueled its popularity but may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Moustapha Awwalou Diouf , Samuel Ouya , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Nowadays, Software Defined Network (SDN) architectures and applications are revolutionizing the way wired networks are built and operate. However, little is known about the potential of this disruptive technology in wireless mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Konstantinos Poularakis , Qiaofeng Qin , Erich Nahum , Miguel Rio , Leandros Tassiulas