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  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
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Building Application for Software-Defined Network

  • Delyan Genkov,
  • Tsvetan Raykov and
  • Miroslav Slavov

11 September 2025

Software-defined networks are a modern approach to computer networks. With this concept, network devices can be monitored and configured centrally. While the lower layers of a software-defined network—devices and controllers—are relativel...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of International Conference on Electronics, Engineering Physics and Earth Science (EEPES 2025))
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,822 Views
14 Pages

Software-Defined Network-Based Vehicular Networks: A Position Paper on Their Modeling and Implementation

  • Lionel Nkenyereye,
  • Lewis Nkenyereye,
  • S. M. Riazul Islam,
  • Yoon-Ho Choi and ,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Jong-Wook Jang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 August 2019

There is a strong devotion in the automotive industry to be part of a wider progression towards the Fifth Generation (5G) era. In-vehicle integration costs between cellular and vehicle-to-vehicle networks using Dedicated Short Range Communication cou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vehicular Sensor Networks: Applications, Advances and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,989 Views
18 Pages

Future Technology: Software-Defined Network (SDN) Forensic

  • Quadri Waseem,
  • Sultan S. Alshamrani,
  • Kashif Nisar,
  • Wan Isni Sofiah Wan Din and
  • Ahmed Saeed Alghamdi

28 April 2021

The software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm has recently emerged as a trend to build various protocols, develop more reliable networks, enhance the data flow controlling, and provide security in a much simpler and flexible way. SDN helps to ease m...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,112 Views
18 Pages

Autonomic Network Management and Cross-Layer Optimization in Software Defined Radio Environments

  • Adamantia Stamou,
  • Grigorios Kakkavas,
  • Konstantinos Tsitseklis,
  • Vasileios Karyotis and
  • Symeon Papavassiliou

3 February 2019

The demand for Autonomic Network Management (ANM) and optimization is as intense as ever, even though significant research has been devoted towards this direction. This paper addresses such need in Software Defined (SDR) based Cognitive Radio Network...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV))
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,029 Views
51 Pages

Network Security Challenges and Countermeasures for Software-Defined Smart Grids: A Survey

  • Dennis Agnew,
  • Sharon Boamah,
  • Arturo Bretas and
  • Janise McNair

2 August 2024

The rise of grid modernization has been prompted by the escalating demand for power, the deteriorating state of infrastructure, and the growing concern regarding the reliability of electric utilities. The smart grid encompasses recent advancements in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
191 Citations
20,889 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...

(This article belongs to the Collection Smart Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,223 Views
20 Pages

7 February 2024

Computing resource measurement and computing routing are essential technologies in the computing first network (CFN), serving as its foundational elements. This paper introduces a Software Defined Computing First Network (SD-CFN) architecture. Buildi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Wireless Communication Networks (Volume II))
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,847 Views
14 Pages

Software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization (NV) are key technologies for future networks, which allow telecommunication service providers (TSPs) to share network resources with users in a flexible manner. Since TSPs have limited vir...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,906 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2022

The satellite-terrestrial integrated network (STIN), as an integration of the satellite network and terrestrial, has become a promising architecture to support global coverage and ubiquitous connection. The architecture of software-defined networking...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiple Access Edge Computing in Non-Terrestial and Terrestrial Internet of Things Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,951 Views
17 Pages

23 September 2021

The satellite network plays an increasingly important role in the global communication. With the development of communication technology, quality of service requirements have become more and more complex and diverse and the quality of service routing...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
281 Citations
18,189 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...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,171 Views
15 Pages

An Energy-Efficient and Blockchain-Integrated Software Defined Network for the Industrial Internet of Things

  • Sasikumar Asaithambi,
  • Logesh Ravi,
  • Hossam Kotb,
  • Ahmad H. Milyani and ,
  • Abdullah Ahmed Azhari,
  • Senthilkumar Nallusamy,
  • Vijayakumar Varadarajan and
  • Subramaniyaswamy Vairavasundaram
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 October 2022

The number of unsecured and portable Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the smart industry is growing exponentially. A diversity of centralized and distributed platforms have been implemented to defend against security attacks; however, these platfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effective Software-Defined Internet-of-Things (SD-IoT) Leveraging AI, 5G and NFV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,250 Views
17 Pages

Energy-Efficient Multi-User Routing in a Software-Defined Multi-Hop Wireless Network

  • Ziqi Liu,
  • Gaochao Xu,
  • Peng Liu,
  • Xiaodong Fu and
  • Yang Liu

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an innovative architecture that designs a logical controller to manage and program the network based on the global view, providing more efficient management, better performance, and higher flexibility for the netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,671 Views
12 Pages

Multicore-Processor Based Software-Defined Communication/Network Platform for Underwater Internet of Things

  • Chaohui Luo,
  • Biyun Ma,
  • Fangjiong Chen,
  • Quansheng Guan and ,
  • Hua Yu and
  • Fei Ji
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 November 2019

Software-defined acoustic modems (SDAMs) for underwater communication and networking have been an important research topic due to their flexibility and programmability. In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable platform for SDAMs based on the TI AM5...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Underwater Systems: Sensing, Communication, Networking and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,752 Views
11 Pages

29 December 2022

With the rapid development of wireless networks, wireless edge computing networks have been widely considered. The heterogeneous characteristics of the 6G edge computing network bring new challenges to network resource scheduling. In this work, we co...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
11,613 Views
21 Pages

Emerging technologies such as Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promise to address cost reduction and flexibility in network operation while enabling innovative network service delivery models. However, operati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecosystemic Evolution Feeded by Smart Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,990 Views
17 Pages

Cross-Domain Resource Allocation Scheme with Unified Control Architecture in Software Defined Optical Access Network

  • Bowen Bao,
  • Qiuyan Yao,
  • Chao Li,
  • Zhengjie Sun and ,
  • Xiangyue Li,
  • Wei Bai,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Sheng Liu and
  • Yunbo Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

8 October 2022

With the rapid development of communication and the rise of new network services, the resource provisioning of the optical access network becomes more significant than before, especially under the multiple-domain networking situation with the require...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,440 Views
24 Pages

8 December 2022

With the limited Internet bandwidth in a given area, unlimited data plans can create congestion because there is no retribution for transmitting many packets. The real-time pricing mechanism can inform users of their Internet consumption to limit con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lifetime Extension Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,529 Views
22 Pages

Analysis of the Radio Coverage for a Mobile Private Network Implemented Using Software Defined Radio Platforms

  • Vlad-Stefan Hociung,
  • Marius-George Gheorghe,
  • Ciprian Zamfirescu,
  • Marius-Constantin Vochin and ,
  • Radu-Ovidiu Preda and
  • Alexandru Martian
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The emergence of mobile private networks (MPNs) has enabled tailored communication solutions for industries, enterprises, and specialized applications, fostering improved control, security, and flexibility. With the rapid advancements in software-def...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,477 Views
26 Pages

Flow Scheduling in Data Center Networks with Time and Energy Constraints: A Software-Defined Network Approach

  • Martin Fraga,
  • Matías Micheletto,
  • Andrés Llinás,
  • Rodrigo Santos and
  • Paula Zabala

21 February 2022

Flow scheduling in Data Center Networks (DCN) is a hot topic as cloud computing and virtualization are becoming the dominant paradigm in the increasing demand of digital services. Within the cost of the DCN, the energy demands associated with the net...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,831 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2023

A significant technological transformation has recently occurred in the agriculture sector. Precision agriculture is one among those transformations that largely focus on the acquisition of the sensor data, identifying the insights, and summarizing t...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
11,303 Views
31 Pages

19 February 2024

The widespread adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) technology has brought revolutionary changes to network control and management. Compared to traditional networks, SDN enhances security by separating the control plane from the data plane a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication Techniques for the Next Generation of Wireless Networks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,819 Views
24 Pages

The Internet of things (IoT) has revolutionized the use of connectivity and has given birth to new transmission technologies to satisfy the requirements of diverse IoT applications. Low powered wide area networks (LPWAN) is one of those transmission...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Privacy and Trustworthiness of Wireless Communications and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
733 Views
25 Pages

19 June 2026

The development of Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) introduces new challenges in network security, particularly in detecting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and network anomalies. Due to the centralized architecture of SDN, traditional d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Networks and Software-Defined Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,071 Views
35 Pages

Efficient Internet-of-Things Cyberattack Depletion Using Blockchain-Enabled Software-Defined Networking and 6G Network Technology

  • Abdul Razaque,
  • Joon Yoo,
  • Gulnara Bektemyssova,
  • Majid Alshammari and ,
  • Tolganay T. Chinibayeva,
  • Saule Amanzholova,
  • Aziz Alotaibi and
  • Dauren Umutkulov
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 December 2023

Low-speed internet can negatively impact incident response by causing delayed detection, ineffective response, poor collaboration, inaccurate analysis, and increased risk. Slow internet speeds can delay the receipt and analysis of data, making it dif...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,195 Views
20 Pages

21 March 2024

The Physically Distributed Logically Centralized (PDLC) software-defined network (SDN) control plane is physically dispersed across several controllers with a global network view for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance. This design, providi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Next Generation Intelligent Communications and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,472 Views
18 Pages

ACM: Accuracy-Aware Collaborative Monitoring for Software-Defined Network-Wide Measurement

  • Jiqing Gu,
  • Chao Song,
  • Haipeng Dai,
  • Lei Shi and ,
  • Jinqiu Wu and
  • Li Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 October 2022

Software-defined measurement (SDM) is a simple and efficient way to deploy measurement tasks and collect measurement data. With SDM, it is convenient for operators to implement fine-grained network-wide measurements at the flow level, from which many...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,236 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2025

Software-defined networking (SDN) requires adaptive control strategies to handle dynamic traffic conditions and heterogeneous network environments. Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising solution, yet deep RL methods often face instab...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,874 Views
23 Pages

Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Management of Software-Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization in an Edge-IoT Architecture

  • Ricardo S. Alonso,
  • Inés Sittón-Candanedo,
  • Roberto Casado-Vara,
  • Javier Prieto and
  • Juan M. Corchado

15 July 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm allows the interconnection of millions of sensor devices gathering information and forwarding to the Cloud, where data is stored and processed to infer knowledge and perform analysis and predictions. Cloud servic...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,175 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Industrial System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,560 Views
17 Pages

25 August 2025

A typical Software-Defined Vehicular Network (SDVN) is open to various cyberattacks because of its centralized controller-based framework. A cyberattack, such as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, can easily overload the central SDVN cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,639 Views
21 Pages

15 May 2025

In order to enhance the precision of network traffic prediction for multi-area vehicle networks, this paper proposes a two-tier distributed Software-Defined Vehicular Network (SDVN) architecture equipped with multiple controllers, which is subsequent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,459 Views
23 Pages

6 June 2024

Mobile users can access vital real-time services through wireless paradigms like software-defined network (SDN) topologies and the Internet of Things. Point-of-contact-based infrastructures and dynamic user densities increase resource access and serv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation of Internet of Things (IoT): New Advances, Solutions, Applications, Services and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
843 Views
22 Pages

10 March 2026

The advent of 5G/6G technologies and the pervasive deployment of IoT devices are driving the emergence of demanding applications that necessitate ultra-low latency, high bandwidth, and significant computational power. Traditional cloud computing mode...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,499 Views
31 Pages

13 June 2024

Offshore wind farms are growing in complexity and size, expanding deeper into maritime environments to capture stronger and steadier wind energy. Like other domains in the energy sector, the wind energy domain is continuing to digitalize its systems...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Technologies for Renewable Energy Development and Utilization: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,716 Views
24 Pages

MODECP: A Multi-Objective Based Approach for Solving Distributed Controller Placement Problem in Software Defined Network

  • Chenxi Liao,
  • Jia Chen,
  • Kuo Guo,
  • Shang Liu and ,
  • Jing Chen and
  • Deyun Gao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 July 2022

Software-Defined Network is an emerging networking paradigm that enables intelligent and flexible network management. Specifically, the design of the control plane is crucial. Therefore, in order to avoid a single point of failure, multiple controlle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy for IoT Networks and the Mobile Internet)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,800 Views
14 Pages

Artificial Neural Network Controller for a Modular Robot Using a Software Defined Radio Communication System

  • Luis Fernando Pedraza,
  • Henry Alberto Hernández and
  • Cesar Augusto Hernández

Modular robots are flexible structures that offer versatility and configuration options for carrying out different types of movements; however, disconnection problems between the modules can lead to the loss of information, and, therefore, the propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Applications of Fuzzy Systems and Neural Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,619 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fog/Edge Computing in Internet of Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,573 Views
27 Pages

In recent years, architectures, devices, and components in telecommunication networks have been challenged by evolutionary and revolutionary factors which are drastically changing the traffic features. Most of these changes imply the need for major r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Networks for Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,273 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Southbound Expansion on Clustered OpenFlow Software-Defined Network Controller Synchronisation Using ODL and ONOS

  • Egodahettiarachchige Don Sarada Indumini Hettiarachchi,
  • Nurul I. Sarkar and
  • Jairo Gutierrez

29 July 2024

The clustering methods of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) have gained popularity due to their ability to offer improved scalability, consistency, dependability, and load balancing within overlay networks and SDN partitions. This paper delved into t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless IoT Network Protocols II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,885 Views
18 Pages

4 March 2023

Software-defined networks (SDN) can use the control plane to manage heterogeneous devices efficiently, improve network resource utilization, and optimize Mobile Edge-Cloud Computing Networks (MECCN) network performance through decisions based on glob...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Network Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,811 Views
24 Pages

21 July 2022

To provide a low-cost methodical way for inference-driven insight into the assessment of SDN operations, a behavioral study of key network parameters that predicate the proper functioning and performance of software-defined networks (SDNs) is present...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access

Encoder-FFN Model with Honeypot Deception for DNS Cache Poisoning Detection and Mitigation in Software-Defined Network

  • Vianney Kengne Tchendji,
  • Volviane Saphir Mfogo,
  • Mthulisi Velempini,
  • Yvanol Rosly Fotso Tatchum and
  • Jelf Nguimdo Kenfack

12 November 2026

The increasing complexity and volume of cyberattacks present a significant challenge to traditional intrusion detection and prevention systems. One prevalent attack is domain name server (DNS) cache poisoning, which involves injecting falsified infor...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,710 Views
27 Pages

12 August 2023

Given the improvements to network flexibility and programmability, software-defined wireless sensor networks (SDWSNs) have been paired with IEEE 802.15.4e time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) to increase network efficiency through slicing. Nonetheless...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,038 Views
27 Pages

23 October 2024

Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks (SDWSN) enable flexibility in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) environments by defining the controllable functions to WSN nodes by the Software Defined Network (SDN) controller. Due to the rapid evolution of SDW...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,425 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
35 Citations
5,182 Views
66 Pages

18 July 2023

The functionality of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is improved by the Software-Defined Vehicular Network (SDVN) paradigm. Routing is challenging in vehicular networks due to the dynamic network topology resulting from the high mobility of nodes....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
13,934 Views
21 Pages

Software Defined Networks in Industrial Automation

  • Khandakar Ahmed,
  • Jan O. Blech,
  • Mark A. Gregory and
  • Heinz W. Schmidt

Trends such as the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 have increased the need to use new and innovative network technologies in industrial automation. The growth of industrial automation communications is an outcome of the shift to harnes...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Services and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,706 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV))
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,597 Views
18 Pages

10 January 2023

In underwater acoustic networks, the accurate estimation of routing weights is NP-hard due to the time-varying environment. Fuzzy logic is a powerful tool for dealing with vague problems. Software-defined networking (SDN) is a promising technology th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): New Directions, Challenges and Applications)

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