Multicasting in software defined networks: A comprehensive survey

Z AlSaeed, I Ahmad, I Hussain - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm is being adopted by
the telecom industry since it enables flexible network resource allocation, configuration and …

Challenges and solutions in software defined networking: A survey

S Saraswat, V Agarwal, HP Gupta, R Mishra… - Journal of Network and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Software Defined Network (SDN) has become one of the most preferred solutions
for the management of large-scale complex networks. The network policies in the large …

DRL-M4MR: An intelligent multicast routing approach based on DQN deep reinforcement learning in SDN

C Zhao, M Ye, X Xue, J Lv, Q Jiang, Y Wang - Physical Communication, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Traditional multicast routing methods have some problems in constructing a multicast tree.
These problems include limited access to network state information, poor adaptability to …

Hardware-based evaluation of scalable and resilient multicast with BIER in P4

D Merling, S Lindner, M Menth - IEEE Access, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional IP multicast (IPMC) maintains state per IPMC group in core devices to distribute
one-to-many traffic along tree-like structures through the network. This limits its scalability …

WARM: Workload-aware multi-application task scheduling for revenue maximization in SDN-based cloud data center

H Yuan, J Bi, M Zhou, K Sedraoui - IEEE Access, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays an increasing number of companies and organizations choose to deploy their
applications in data centers to leverage resource sharing. The increase in tasks of multiple …

Joint optimal multicast scheduling and caching for improved performance and energy saving in wireless heterogeneous networks

L Zhong, C Xu, J Chen, W Yan, S Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Base station caching and multicast are two promising methods to support mass content
delivery in future wireless network environments. However, existing scheduling designs do …

Blue monkey updated chimp optimization algorithm for enhanced load balancing model

S Sharma, D Seth - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Even though, Software Defined Networks (SDN) have exposed greater advantages
in a lot of aspects, still the issue related to load balancing (LB) exists like poor performance …

NFV-based scalable guaranteed-bandwidth multicast service for software defined ISP networks

H Soni, W Dabbous, T Turletti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New applications where anyone can broadcast high quality video are becoming very
popular. Internet services providers (ISPs) may take the opportunity to propose new high …

P4-based implementation of BIER and BIER-FRR for scalable and resilient multicast

D Merling, S Lindner, M Menth - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER) is a novel IP multicast (IPMC) forwarding
paradigm proposed by the IETF. It offers a transport layer for other IPMC traffic, keeps core …

Efficiency of BIER multicast in large networks

D Merling, T Stüber, M Menth - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) has been introduced by the IETF to transport IP
multicast (IPMC) traffic within a BIER domain. Its advantage over IPMC is improved …