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Software-defined networking (SDN) is an architecture that aims to make networks fast and flexible. SDN's goal is to improve network control by enabling service providers as well as enterprises to respond quickly to changing business needs.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Shreya Rajkumar

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is another technology that has been developing in the last few years as a relevant technique to improve network programmability and administration. Nonetheless, its centralized design presents a major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ashikuzzaman , Md. Saifuzzaman Abhi , Mahabubur Rahman , Md. Manjur Ahmed , Md. Mehedi Hasan , Md. Ahsan Arif

Softwarization and virtualization in 5G and beyond necessitate thorough testing to ensure the security of critical infrastructure and networks, requiring the identification of vulnerabilities and unintended emergent behaviors from protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jingda Yang , Sudhanshu Arya , Ying Wang

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a new paradigm that allows developing more flexible network applications. SDN controller, which represents a centralized controlling point, is responsible for running various network applications as well…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Majd Latah , Levent Toker

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm that promises to change this state of affairs, by breaking vertical integration, separating the network's control logic from the underlying routers and switches, promoting (logical)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Diego Kreutz , Fernando M. V. Ramos , Paulo Verissimo , Christian Esteve Rothenberg , Siamak Azodolmolky , Steve Uhlig

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) 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) not only enables agility through the realization of part of the network functionality in software but also facilitates offering advanced features at the network layer. Hence, SDN can support a wide range of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Mona Elsaadawy , Bettina Kemme , Mohamed Younis

Software testing is becoming a critical part of the development cycle of embedded devices, enabling vulnerability detection. A well-studied approach of software testing is fuzz-testing (fuzzing), during which mutated input is sent to an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

SDN controllers must be periodically modified to add features, improve performance, and fix bugs, but current techniques for implementing dynamic updates are inadequate. Simply halting old controllers and bringing up new ones can cause…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Karla Saur , Joseph Collard , Nate Foster , Arjun Guha , Laurent Vanbever , Michael Hicks

Testing network protocol implementations is critical for ensuring the reliability, security, and interoperability of distributed systems. Faults in protocol behavior can lead to vulnerabilities and system failures, especially in real-time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Changze Huang , Di Wang , Zhi Quan Zhou

Software-defined network (SDN) is a new approach that allows network control to become directly programmable, and the underlying infrastructure can be abstracted from applications and network services. Control plane). When it comes to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Shahran Rahman Alve , Samiha Islam , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows to control the available network resources by an intelligent and centralized authority in order to optimize traffic flows in a flexible manner. However, centralized control may face scalability…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Benjamin J. van Asten , Niels L. M. van Adrichem , Fernando A. Kuipers

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging technology of efficiently controlling and managing computer networks, such as in data centres, Wide Area Networks (WANs), as well as in ubiquitous communication. In this paper, we explore the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Anees Al-Najjar , Furqan Hameed Khan , Marius Portmann

In a reliable SDN environment, different controllers coordinate different switches and backup controllers can be set in place to tolerate faults. This approach increases the challenge to maintain a consistent network view. If this global…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-15 André Mantas , Fernando M. V. Ramos

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) is a novel paradigm that out-sources the control of packet-forwarding switches to a set of software controllers. The most fundamental task of these controllers is the correct implementation of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Marco Canini , Petr Kuznetsov , Dan Levin , Stefan Schmid

This paper explores the use of active and passive learning, i.e.\ active and passive techniques to infer state machine models of systems, for fuzzing. Fuzzing has become a very popular and successful technique to improve the robustness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Cristian Daniele , Seyed Behnam Andarzian , Erik Poll

Computer networks covered the entire world and a serious and new development has not formed for many years. But companies and consumer organizations complain about the failure to add new features to their networks and according to their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Amir Javadpour

SDN-enabled Integrated satellite-terrestrial networks (ISTNs), can provide several advantages including global seamless coverage, high reliability, low latency, etc. and can be a key enabler towards next generation networks. To deal with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Nariman Torkzaban , John S. Baras