Next generation mobile networks not only envision enhancing the traditional MBB use case
but also aim to meet the requirements of new use cases, such as the IoT. This article focuses …

The machine-type communication (MTC) plays an essential role in the mobile network
society and it has demonstrated its effectiveness to generate significant revenues for mobile …

As wireless services and applications become more sophisticated and require faster and
higher capacity networks, there is a need for an efficient management of the execution of …

OpenFlow is one of the most famous protocols for controller-to-switch communications in
software-defined networking (SDN), commonly seen as a promising way towards future …

Nowadays, the increase in the number of mobile users and cellular traffic leads to new
challenges in the fifth-generation (5G) of cellular networks. The increase in the demand for …

Data plane programmability brings network flexibility to a new level. However, it introduces
the complexity of the data path's program as a new factor that influences packet forwarding …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging architecture for the next-generation
Internet, providing unprecedented network programmability to handle the explosive growth …

Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) is the latest networking paradigm that
espouses the separation of the control plane from the data plane for increased flexibility in …

Software-defined networks (SDNs) offer unique and attractive solutions to solve challenging
management issues in Internet of Things (IoT)-based large-scale multi-technological …

The aim of this letter is to propose an analytical model to study the performance of software-
defined network (SDN) switches. Here, SDN switch performance is defined as the time that …