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38 Citations
4,465 Views
22 Pages

6 July 2022

Due to the widespread proliferation of multimedia traffic resulting from Internet of Things (IoT) applications and the increased use of remote multimedia-based applications, as a consequence of COVID-19, there is an urgent need to develop intelligent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,549 Views
33 Pages

Dynamic RSVP in Modern Networks for Advanced Resource Control with P4 Data Plane

  • Pin-An Pan,
  • Wen-Long Chin,
  • Yen-Chun Huang,
  • Yu-Xiang Huang and
  • Cheng-Hsien Yu

2 April 2025

This study focuses on leveraging the emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology, P4, to design a data plane for the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) that can be applied in various scenarios, including both wired and wireless networks....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,428 Views
16 Pages

19 June 2024

Software-defined networks (SDNs) are expanding their presence beyond laboratories, campus networks, ISPs, and data centre networks, moving into various domains. Although originally designed for campus networks, SDNs face scalability challenges, espec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,236 Views
15 Pages

Enhanced CPU Design for SDN Controller

  • Hiba S. Bazzi,
  • Ramzi A. Jaber,
  • Ahmad M. El-Hajj,
  • Fathelalem A. Hija and
  • Ali M. Haidar

31 July 2024

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) revolutionizes network management by decoupling control plane functionality from data plane devices, enabling the centralized control and programmability of network behavior. This paper uses the ternary system to imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,855 Views
16 Pages

Distributed controllers in software-defined networking (SDN) become a promising approach because of their scalable and reliable deployments in current SDN environments. Since the network traffic varies with time and space, a static mapping between sw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,900 Views
24 Pages

25 June 2022

The extensive use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has recently enabled the development of smart cities. Smart cities operate in real-time to improve metropolitan areas’ comfort and efficiency. Sensors in these IoT devices are immediately...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,776 Views
17 Pages

22 June 2020

Handover support is one of the important issues in mobile networks to guarantee the quality of service (QoS) requirements for mobile users. Alongside the development of network technologies, handover management to provide service continuity has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,145 Views
21 Pages

The connected multi road side unit (RSU) environment can be envisioned as the RSU cloud. In this paper, the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) framework is utilized to dynamically reconfigure the RSU clouds for the mixed traffic flows with energy rest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,722 Views
15 Pages

7 November 2019

Conventional routing protocols proposed for Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) are usually inefficient and vulnerable for multi-hop data forwarding due to the unavailability of global information and inefficiencies in their route discovering schemes. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,600 Views
22 Pages

4 July 2024

As 5G technology becomes more widespread, the significant improvement in network speed and connection density has introduced more challenges to network security. In particular, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have become more frequent an...

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  • Open Access
875 Views
38 Pages

A Hybrid Framework for the Sensitivity Analysis of Software-Defined Networking Performance Metrics Using Design of Experiments and Machine Learning Techniques

  • Chekwube Ezechi,
  • Mobayode O. Akinsolu,
  • Wilson Sakpere,
  • Abimbola O. Sangodoyin,
  • Uyoata E. Uyoata,
  • Isaac Owusu-Nyarko and
  • Folahanmi T. Akinsolu

9 September 2025

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a transformative approach for managing modern network architectures, particularly in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. However, ensuring the optimal SDN performance and security often needs a robust sensitivi...

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  • Open Access
510 Views
24 Pages

19 November 2025

Cyber-physical power systems integrate sensing, communication, and control, ensuring power system resiliency and security, particularly in clustered networked microgrids. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides a suitable foundation by centralizin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,208 Views
19 Pages

8 October 2021

Real-time business practices require huge amounts of data directly from the production assets. This new thirst for accurate and timely data has forced the convergence of the traditionally business-focused information technology (IT) environment with...

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  • Open Access
59 Citations
10,360 Views
21 Pages

In the last decade, the differences in the information communication technology (ICT) infrastructures between urban and rural areas have registered a tremendous increase. ICT infrastructures could strongly help rural communities where many operations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,173 Views
14 Pages

1 August 2018

In recent years, cloud computing and fog computing have appeared one after the other, as promising technologies for augmenting the computing capability of devices locally. By offloading computational tasks to fog servers or cloud servers, the time fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
7,640 Views
16 Pages

The Internet of Things (IoT) has proven to be a billion-dollar industry. Despite offering numerous benefits, the prevalent nature of IoT makes it vulnerable and a possible target for the development of cyber-attacks. The diversity of the IoT, on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,643 Views
18 Pages

Smart SDN Management of Fog Services to Optimize QoS and Energy

  • Piotr Fröhlich,
  • Erol Gelenbe,
  • Jerzy Fiołka,
  • Jacek Chęciński,
  • Mateusz Nowak and
  • Zdzisław Filus

29 April 2021

The short latency required by IoT devices that need to access specific services have led to the development of Fog architectures that can serve as a useful intermediary between IoT systems and the Cloud. However, the massive numbers of IoT devices th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,697 Views
27 Pages

Flow Table Saturation Attack against Dynamic Timeout Mechanisms in SDN

  • Yi Shen,
  • Chunming Wu,
  • Dezhang Kong and
  • Qiumei Cheng

16 June 2023

Software-defined networking (SDN) enables dynamic management and flexible network control by employing reactive rule installation. Due to high power consumption and cost, current OpenFlow switches only support a limited number of flow rules, which is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,464 Views
22 Pages

7 October 2022

Recent technological developments have led to the emergence of the next generation of industry—Industry 4.0. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a key enabler of this new manufacturing paradigm where millions of interconnected smart dev...

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  • Open Access
2,853 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2020

In upcoming smart urban environments, various things can be interconnected, and the Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to construct a safer and more convenient urban environment. Things in the IoT need an addressing system that can uniquely identif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,333 Views
27 Pages

27 October 2022

Dealing with the packet-routing problem is challenging in the V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) network environment, where it suffers from the high mobility of vehicles and varied vehicle density at different times. Many related studies have been proposed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,603 Views
22 Pages

Efficient Placement of Service Function Chains in Cloud Computing Environments

  • Marwa A. Abdelaal,
  • Gamal A. Ebrahim and
  • Wagdy R. Anis

The widespread adoption of network function virtualization (NFV) leads to providing network services through a chain of virtual network functions (VNFs). This architecture is called service function chain (SFC), which can be hosted on top of commodit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,858 Views
14 Pages

Service Function Chain Migration: A Survey

  • Zhiping Zhang and
  • Changda Wang

As a core technology emerging from the convergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Service Function Chaining (SFC) enables the dynamic orchestration of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to support divers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,995 Views
28 Pages

21 June 2018

In today’s internet-of-things (IoT) environment, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have many advantages, with broad applications in different areas including environmental monitoring, maintaining security, etc. However, high energy depletion may...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,780 Views
24 Pages

31 March 2025

This paper presents a case study of Fog Computing, Edge Computing (EC) and Intelligent EC applied to Smart Buildings, focusing on the deployment of innovative services and smart IoT devices, discussing new architecture as Software-Defined Network (SD...

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  • Open Access
1,197 Views
24 Pages

6 June 2025

For modern power plants to be dependable, safe, sustainable, and provide the highest operational efficiency (i.e., enhance dynamic load distribution with a faster response time at reduced reactive losses), there must be an intelligent dynamic load ma...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,042 Views
18 Pages

28 November 2022

The rapid development of three-dimensional (3D) acquisition technology based on 3D sensors provides a large volume of data, which are often represented in the form of point clouds. Point cloud representation can preserve the original geometric inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,415 Views
20 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Stateful Firewall-Enabled SDN with Flow-Based Scheduling for Distributed Controllers

  • Senthil P.,
  • Balasubramanian Prabhu Kavin,
  • S. R. Srividhya,
  • Ramachandran V.,
  • Kavitha C. and
  • Wen-Cheng Lai

22 September 2022

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a network approach achieved by decoupling of the control and data planes. The control plane is logically centralized and the data plane is distributed across the network elements. The real-time network is in need...

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  • Open Access
235 Citations
15,997 Views
18 Pages

28 April 2021

Software-defined Networking (SDN) has recently developed and been put forward as a promising and encouraging solution for future internet architecture. Managed, the centralized and controlled network has become more flexible and visible using SDN. On...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,402 Views
10 Pages

16 September 2022

The purpose of this paper is to improve the effectiveness of the Moving Target Defense (MTD)-based protection method, which reduces the problem of using traditional network protection tools due to the static nature of network services and configurati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,372 Views
16 Pages

Load Balancing Algorithm on the Immense Scale of Internet of Things in SDN for Smart Cities

  • Himanshi Babbar,
  • Shalli Rani,
  • Divya Gupta,
  • Hani Moaiteq Aljahdali,
  • Aman Singh and
  • Fadi Al-Turjman

26 August 2021

Since the worldwide Internet of Things (IoT) in smart cities is becoming increasingly popular among consumers and the business community, network traffic management is a crucial issue for optimizing the IoT ’s performance in smart cities. Multiple co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,294 Views
26 Pages

Multi-Controllers Placement Optimization in SDN by the Hybrid HSA-PSO Algorithm

  • Neamah S. Radam,
  • Sufyan T. Faraj Al-Janabi and
  • Khalid Sh. Jasim

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a developing architecture that provides scalability, flexibility, and efficient network management. However, optimal controller placement faces many problems, which affect the performance of the overall network. T...

  • Review
  • Open Access
94 Citations
10,230 Views
28 Pages

A Taxonomy of DDoS Attack Mitigation Approaches Featured by SDN Technologies in IoT Scenarios

  • Felipe S. Dantas Silva,
  • Esau Silva,
  • Emidio P. Neto,
  • Marcilio Lemos,
  • Augusto J. Venancio Neto and
  • Flavio Esposito

29 May 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted much attention from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) community in recent years. One of the main reasons for this is the availability of techniques provided by this paradigm, such as environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,906 Views
19 Pages

SDN Anomalous Traffic Detection Based on Temporal Convolutional Network

  • Ziyi Wang,
  • Zhenyu Guan,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Caixia Li,
  • Xuan Sun and
  • Jun Li

14 April 2025

The wide application of software-defined network (SDN) architecture, combined with its centralized control characteristics, have exacerbated the potential risk of network attacks, and the traditional anomaly traffic detection methods are facing the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,293 Views
15 Pages

14 September 2019

There is a lot of effort to limit the impact of CO2 emissions from the information communication technologies (ICT) industry by reducing the energy consumption on all aspects of networking technologies. In a service provider network, data centers (DC...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,958 Views
39 Pages

A Systematic Literature Review on Military Software Defined Networks

  • Vasileios Gkioulos,
  • Håkon Gunleifsen and
  • Goitom Kahsay Weldehawaryat

12 September 2018

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an evolving network architecture paradigm that focuses on the separation of control and data planes. SDN receives increasing attention both from academia and industry, across a multitude of application domains. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,942 Views
18 Pages

16 June 2022

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) vulnerabilities have rapidly extended and have been given different possibilities for even more advanced assaults on specific targets in recent times, thanks to the growth of innovative technology such as the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,810 Views
18 Pages

27 February 2018

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has proved itself to be a backbone in the new network design and is quickly becoming an industry standard. The idea of separation of control plane and data plane is the key concept behind SDN. SDN not only allows us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,712 Views
15 Pages

8 January 2023

The rapid advancement in the Internet of Things (IoT) and its integration with Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are expected to play a crucial role in future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Additionally, the continuous progress in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,853 Views
24 Pages

Currently, network applications, such as audio, video, and augmented reality, have different stringent service requirements. They require service provision through end-to-end connections via other networks with different operating environments or ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,261 Views
28 Pages

A Performance Evaluation for Software Defined Networks with P4

  • Omesh A. Fernando,
  • Hannan Xiao,
  • Joseph Spring and
  • Xianhui Che

11 June 2025

The exponential growth in the number of devices connected via the internet has led to the need to achieve granular programmability for increased performance, resilience, reduced latency, and jitter. Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Programming P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,857 Views
34 Pages

22 November 2023

In the modern era, with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), big data applications, cloud computing, and the ever-increasing demand for high-speed internet with the aid of upgraded telecom network resources, users now require virtualization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,292 Views
17 Pages

An Experimental OpenFlow Proposal over Legacy GPONs to Allow Real-Time Service Reconfiguration Policies

  • Noemí Merayo,
  • David de Pintos,
  • Juan C. Aguado,
  • Ignacio de Miguel,
  • Ramón J. Durán,
  • Patricia Fernández,
  • Rubén M. Lorenzo and
  • Evaristo J. Abril

20 January 2021

The integration of Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies in Passive Optical Networks (PONs) would provide great advantages to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Network Operators, since they can optimize the network operation and reduce i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
9,157 Views
18 Pages

DeepIDS: Deep Learning Approach for Intrusion Detection in Software Defined Networking

  • Tuan Anh Tang,
  • Lotfi Mhamdi,
  • Des McLernon,
  • Syed Ali Raza Zaidi,
  • Mounir Ghogho and
  • Fadi El Moussa

19 September 2020

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is developing as a new solution for the development and innovation of the Internet. SDN is expected to be the ideal future for the Internet, since it can provide a controllable, dynamic, and cost-effective network. T...

  • Review
  • Open Access
189 Citations
20,136 Views
32 Pages

4 May 2017

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming increasingly popular with the advent of the Internet of things (IoT). Various real-world applications of WSNs such as in smart grids, smart farming and smart health would require a potential deployment of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,294 Views
21 Pages

28 October 2022

With the development of Software Defined Networking (SDN), its security is becoming increasingly important. Since SDN has the characteristics of centralized management and programmable, attackers can easily take advantage of the security vulnerabilit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
65 Citations
13,672 Views
24 Pages

Intelligent Load Balancing Techniques in Software Defined Networks: A Survey

  • Thabo Semong,
  • Thabiso Maupong,
  • Stephen Anokye,
  • Kefalotse Kehulakae,
  • Setso Dimakatso,
  • Gabanthone Boipelo and
  • Seth Sarefo

In the current technology driven era, the use of devices that connect to the internet has increased significantly. Consequently, there has been a significant increase in internet traffic. Some of the challenges that arise from the increased traffic i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,498 Views
22 Pages

22 February 2021

The number of smart cities is increasing rapidly around the world with the continuous increase of governments’ interest in exploiting Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to solve issues arising from rapid urbanization. Most smart city se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,424 Views
20 Pages

Bandwidth and Accuracy-Aware State Estimation for Smart Grids Using Software Defined Networks

  • Alessio Meloni,
  • Paolo Attilio Pegoraro,
  • Luigi Atzori and
  • Sara Sulis

27 June 2017

Smart grid (SG) will be one of the major application domains that will present severe pressures on future communication networks due to the expected huge number of devices that will be connected to it and that will impose stringent quality transmissi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,193 Views
16 Pages

19 August 2023

The software defined network (SDN) collects network traffic data and proactively manages networks. SDN’s programmability makes it excellent for developing distributed applications, cybersecurity, and decentralized network control in multitenant...

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