Information-centric networking (ICN) has been developed as a potential candidate for future networks. In this model, users are provided with content rather than communication channels between the different hosts. The ICN network has several problems...
Despite the immense benefits offered by the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian and military applications, significant work needs to be done to ensure that these systems are able to securely communicate and resiliently operate...
Software defined networking (SDN) is an emerging networking architecture that separates the control plane from the data plane and moves network management to a central point, called the controller. The controller is responsible for preparing the flow...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is one of the most commonly used network architectures in recent years. With the substantial increase in the number of Internet users, network security threats appear more frequently, which brings more concerns to SD...
With emerging technologies like cloud computing and big data, managing traditional networks has become more demanding. Software-defined networking (SDN) promises faster implementation, flexibility, and simplified network management. However, due to S...
Software-Defined Networking-based Mobile Networks (SDN-MNs) are considered the future of 5G mobile network architecture. With the evolving cyber-attack threat, security assessments need to be performed in the network management. Due to the distinctiv...
Resource Constraints in Wireless Sensor Networks are a key factor in protocols and application design. Furthermore, energy consumption plays an important role in protocols decisions, such as routing metrics. In Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based...
With the development of smart vehicles and various vehicular applications, Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) paradigm has attracted from academic and industry. Compared with the cloud computing platform, VEC has several new features, such as the higher...
The internet’s future architecture, known as Named Data Networking (NDN), is a creative way to offer content-based services. NDN is more appropriate for content distribution because of its special characteristics, such as naming conventions for...
With the rapid development of Industrial 4.0, massive emerging time-critical applications pose new demands for industrial networks, such as strict latency boundaries, ultra-reliable transmission, and so on. Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is well sui...
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...
Link failures frequently occur in communication networks, which negatively impacts network services delivery. Compared to traditional distributed networks, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides numerous benefits for link robustness to avoid serv...
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are considered of paramount importance to improve air–ground and THz communications performance for 6G systems. Recently, RISs were proposed in Physical Layer Security (PLS), as they can (i) improve the...
Deployment of new optimized routing rules on routers are challenging, owing to the tight coupling of the data and control planes and a lack of global topological information. Due to the distributed nature of the traditional classical internet protoco...
A decentralized power distribution network consisting of smart microgrids introduces opportunities to trade with energy called transactive energy. However, research studies in the existing literature suggest that several standardized information mode...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a relatively new networking architecture that has become the most widely discussed networking technology in recent years and the latest development in the field of developing digital networks, which aims to break...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is the next generation network architecture with exciting application prospects. The control function in SDN is decoupled from the data forwarding plane, hence it provides a new centralized architecture with flexible...
The promising advancements in the telecommunications and automotive sectors over the years have empowered drivers with highly innovative communication and sensing capabilities, in turn paving the way for the next-generation connected and autonomous v...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides a new perspective for the Internet of Things (IoT), since, with the separation of the control from the data planes, it is viable to optimise the traditional networks operation management. In particular, the...
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...
We explain the notion of software-defined networking (SDN), whose southbound interface may be implemented by the OpenFlow protocol. We describe the operation of OpenFlow and summarize the features of specification versions 1.0–1.4. We give an overvie...
The classification of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) traffic is an essential tool for network management, network monitoring, traffic engineering, dynamic resource allocation planning, and applying Quality of Service (QoS) policies. The programmab...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has revolutionized network management by providing unprecedented flexibility, control, and efficiency. However, its centralized architecture introduces critical security vulnerabilities. This paper introduces a novel...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new architecture with symmetric/asymmetric network structures that separates the control plane of network devices from the data plane, and a Controller Placement Problem (CPP) is a critical management problem in...
In traditional network management, the configuration of routing policies and associated settings on individual routers and switches was performed manually, incurring a considerable cost. By centralizing network management, software-defined networking...
Multiconnectivity allows user equipment/devices to connect to multiple radio access technologies simultaneously, including 5G, 4G (LTE), and WiFi. It is a necessity in meeting the increasing demand for mobile network services for the 5G and beyond wi...
The use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in the communications of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) demands more comprehensive solutions than those developed to date. The lack of an SDN solution applicable in diverse IIoT scenarios is the...
The limited computation resource of the centralized controller and communication bandwidth between the control and data planes become the bottleneck in forwarding the packets in Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Denial of Service (DoS) attacks based...
There has been an increase in the usage of Internet of Things (IoT), which has recently become a rising area of interest as it is being extensively used for numerous applications and devices such as wireless sensors, medical devices, sensitive home s...
Software-defined network (SDNs) have fundamentally changed network infrastructure by decoupling the data plane and the control plane. This architectural shift rejuvenates the network layer by granting the re-programmability and centralized management...
In software-defined networking (SDN), the traffic forwarding delay highly depends on the latency associated with updating the forwarding rules in flow tables. With the increase in fine-grained flow control requirements, due to the flexible control ca...
To support more advanced functionality in vehicles, there is the challenge of deterministic and reliable transmission of sensor data and control signals. Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is the most promising candidate to meet this demand by leveragin...
Software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a flexible and programmable network architecture that takes advantage of the benefits of global visibility and centralized control over a network. One of the main properties of the SDN architecture is...
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects smart devices to enable various intelligent services. The deployment of IoT encounters several challenges, such as difficulties in controlling and managing IoT applications and networks, problems in programming e...
Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging networking technology with a central point, called the controller, on the control plane. This controller communicates with the application and data planes. In fifth-generation (5G) mobile wireless netw...
Publish/subscribe systems on the traditional Internet suffer from poor scalability and high delay in the face of the Internet of Things (IoT) environment. Being customizable, the paradigm of software-defined networking (SDN) provides a chance to esta...
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a widely used protocol that provides a mapping of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to Media Access Control (MAC) addresses in local area networks. This protocol suffers from many spoofing attacks because of its st...
Load Balancing (LB) is one of the most important tasks required to maximize network performance, scalability and robustness. Nowadays, with the emergence of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), LB for SDN has become a very important issue. SDN decouple...
Currently, more studies are focusing on traffic classification in software-defined networks (SDNs). Accurate classification and selecting the appropriate controller have benefited from the application of machine learning (ML) in practice. In this res...
Recently, there has been an explosive growth in wireless devices capable of connecting to the Internet and utilizing various services anytime, anywhere, often while on the move. In the realm of the Internet, such devices are called mobile nodes. When...
In this paper, we discuss how SDN can contribute to enhance future cellular networks. We first present SDN and describe its characteristics. Then, we explore how SDN can be used to improve current cellular networks, analyzing the advantages and disad...
The network session constraints for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications are different and challenging. These constraints necessitates a high level of reconfigurability, so that the system can assess the impact of an event and adjust the...
The rapid growth of cloud computing has led to the development of the Software-Defined Network (SDN), which is a network strategy that offers dynamic management and improved performance. However, security threats are a growing concern, particularly w...
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...
Recent advancements in software-defined networking (SDN) make it possible to overcome the management challenges of traditional networks by logically centralizing the control plane and decoupling it from the forwarding plane. Through a symmetric and c...
With the increased number of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) installations, the data centers of large service providers are becoming more and more agile in terms of network performance efficiency and flexibility. While SDN is an active and obvious...
Traditional network architectures in smart ship communication systems struggle to efficiently manage the integration of heterogeneous sensor data. Additionally, conventional end-to-end transmission algorithms that rely on single-metric and single-pat...
In mobile networks, a content server can provide multiple services simultaneously to a mobile device, generating multiple data flows. As the device moves, the transmission path in the wired network may need to be switched to maintain service continui...
Fiber optic networks (FONs) are considered the backbone of telecom companies worldwide. However, the network elements of FONs are scattered over a wide area and managed through a centralized controller based on intelligent devices and the internet of...
The growth of smart cities is fueled by the vast rise in wireless smart gadgets and uninterrupted connectivity. WiFi is the dominant wireless technology, enabling Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity in smart cities due to its ubiquitous access poin...
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