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Aiming at the local overload of multi-controller deployment in software-defined networks, a load balancing mechanism of SDN controller based on reinforcement learning is designed. The initial paired migrate-out domain and migrate-in domain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Zhuo Li , Xu Zhou , Junruo Gao , Yifang Qin

Hybrid testing that integrates fuzzing, symbolic execution, and sampling has demonstrated superior testing efficiency compared to individual techniques. However, the state-of-the-art (SOTA) hybrid testing tools do not fully exploit the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Lianjing Wang , Yufeng Zhang , Kenli Li , Zhenbang Chen , Xu Zhou , Pengfei Wang , Guangning Song , Ji Wang

An approach to using the concept of Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization (SDN/NFV) for the implementation of an information security monitoring and management system in 5G and 6G networks is proposed. SDN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Igor Buzhin , Veronica Antonova , Yury Mironov , Vladislav Gnezdilov , Eldar Gaifutdinov , Mikhail Gorodnichev

As autonomous driving systems (ADS) advance towards higher levels of autonomy, orchestrating their safety verification becomes increasingly intricate. This paper unveils ScenarioFuzz, a pioneering scenario-based fuzz testing methodology.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tong Wang , Taotao Gu , Huan Deng , Hu Li , Xiaohui Kuang , Gang Zhao

This paper explores the Quality of Service (QoS) performance of two widely used Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controllers, POX and Ryu, using Mininet for network simulation. SDN, a transformative approach to network architecture,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Chandimal Jayawardena , Jay Chen , Amay Bhalla , Lin Bu

Modern In-Vehicle Networks (IVNs) are composed of a large number of devices and services linked via an Ethernet-based time-sensitive network. Communication in future IVNs will become more dynamic as services can be updated, added, or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Timo Häckel , Philipp Meyer , Mehmet Mueller , Jan Schmitt-Solbrig , Franz Korf , Thomas C. Schmidt

Ensuring safety in the sense of constraint satisfaction for learning-based control is a critical challenge, especially in the model-free case. While safety filters address this challenge in the model-based setting by modifying unsafe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Kanghui He , Shengling Shi , Ton van den Boom , Bart De Schutter

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

Future in-vehicular networks will be based on Ethernet. The IEEE Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a promising candidate to satisfy real-time requirements in future car communication. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) extends the Ethernet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Timo Häckel , Philipp Meyer , Franz Korf , Thomas C. Schmidt

Fuzzing network servers is a technical challenge, since the behavior of the target server depends on its state over a sequence of multiple messages. Existing solutions are costly and difficult to use, as they rely on manually-customized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Roberto Natella

Being a state-of-the-art network, Software Defined Networking (SDN) decouples control and management planes from data plane of the forwarding devices by implementing both the control and management planes at logically centralized entity,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Syed Mohsan Raza

Accurate knowledge of the state variables in a dynamical system is critical for effective control, diagnosis, and supervision, especially when direct measurements of all states are infeasible. This paper presents a novel approach to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Ayoub Farkane , Mohamed Boutayeb , Mustapha Oudani , Mounir Ghogho

This study proposes a novel approach for dynamic load balancing in Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) using a Transformer-based Deep Q-Network (DQN). Traditional load balancing mechanisms, such as Round Robin (RR) and Weighted Round Robin…

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training across distributed clients while ensuring data privacy. Traditionally, FL relies on a centralized server to coordinate learning, which creates bottlenecks and a single point…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Phani Sahasra Akkinepally , Manaswini Piduguralla , Sushant Joshi , Sathya Peri , Sandeep Kulkarni

A common paradigm for improving fuzzing performance is to focus on selected regions of a program rather than its entirety. While previous work has largely explored how these locations can be reached, their selection, that is, the where, has…

The recent advances in network management automation and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are easing network policy management tasks. At the same time, these new technologies create a new mode of failure in the management cycle itself.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Praveen Tammana , Chandra Nagarajan , Pavan Mamillapalli , Ramana Rao Kompella , Myungjin Lee

Traffic Steering (TS) dynamically allocates user traffic across cells to enhance Quality of Experience (QoE), load balance, and spectrum efficiency in 5G networks. However, TS algorithms remain vulnerable to adversarial conditions such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi , Hossein Mohammadi , Bo Tang , Vuk Marojevic

Storage systems are fundamental to modern computing infrastructures, yet ensuring their correctness remains challenging in practice. Despite decades of research on system testing, many storage-system failures (including durability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ying Wang , Jiahui Chen , Dejun Jiang

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

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