The design and implementation of open {vSwitch}

B Pfaff, J Pettit, T Koponen, E Jackson, A Zhou… - … USENIX symposium on …, 2015 - usenix.org
We describe the design and implementation of Open vSwitch, a multi-layer, open source
virtual switch for all major hypervisor platforms. Open vSwitch was designed de novo for …

Rules placement problem in OpenFlow networks: A survey

XN Nguyen, D Saucez, C Barakat… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) abstracts low-level network functionalities to simplify
network management and reduce costs. The OpenFlow protocol implements the SDN …

Enabling network innovation in data center networks with software defined networking: A survey

B Dai, G Xu, B Huang, P Qin, Y Xu - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the rapid growth of cloud applications and users, Data Center Network (DCN) has
become a critical component in the cloud ecosystem to sustain remarkable computation …

Systems and methods for performing debugging operations on networks using a controller

X Wu, R Bajpai, RW Sherwood… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A controller implemented on computing equipment may control switches in
a network. The controller may provide flow tables that implement network policies to the …

SDN flow entry management using reinforcement learning

TY Mu, A Al-Fuqaha, K Shuaib, FM Sallabi… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Modern information technology services largely depend on cloud infrastructures to provide
their services. These cloud infrastructures are built on top of Datacenter Networks (DCNs) …

SFTO-Guard: Real-time detection and mitigation system for slow-rate flow table overflow attacks

D Tang, D Zhang, Z Qin, Q Yang, S **ao - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The simplified data plane of Software-Defined Network (SDN) should be able to process
packets from the entire network. However, the flow table size constrains the data plane …

FTODefender: An efficient flow table overflow attacks defending system in SDN

D Tang, Z Zheng, C Yin, B **ong, Z Qin… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising architecture that disentangles
the control plane from the data plane. A mainstream southbound protocol for controller-to …

Delayed installation and expedited eviction: An alternative approach to reduce flow table occupancy in SDN switches

S Shirali-Shahreza, Y Ganjali - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Limited flow table size in switches is a major concern for SDN applications. The common
approach to overcome this problem is to identify elephant flows and solely focus on them …

Ftop: An efficient flow table overflow preventing system for switches in sdn

D Tang, Z Zheng, K Li, C Yin, W Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new network framework widely adopted in
data center networks that decouples the control plane from data plane to make network …

Intelligently modeling, detecting, and scheduling elephant flows in software defined energy cloud: A survey

LX Liao, HC Chao, MY Chen - Journal of Parallel and Distributed …, 2020 - Elsevier
Elephant flows (elephants) refer to the sequences of packets that contribute only 10% of the
total volume but consume over 90% of the network bandwidth. They often cause network …