The software-defined network (SDN) enabled mobile edge network greatly facilitates
network resource management and promotes many emerging applications. However, user …

Abstract Software-defined networking (SDN), a novel network paradigm, separates the
control plane and data plane into different network equipment to realize the flexible control …

Software-defined networking (SDN) enables fast service innovations through network
programmability. In SDN, a logically centralized controller compiles a set of policies into the …

Software-defined networking decouples the control plane from the data plane to enable
centralized flow-level network management, while requiring periodically collecting traffic …

In software-defined networks, due to the limited flow table capacity, unreasonable rule
placement will cause the flow table overflow problem. These flows without flow rules …

Links inevitably fail in expanding networks, leading to user-perceived service interruptions.
To localize link failures quickly and accurately is thus essential, and route-aware active …

Data center networks (DCNs) act as critical infrastructures for emerging technologies. In
general, a DCN involves a multi-rooted tree with various shortest paths of equal length from …

An approach to using the concept of Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions
Virtualization (SDN/NFV) for the implementation of an information security monitoring and …

Middleboxes are widely used in modern networks for a variety of network functions in
cybersecurity, performance enhancement, and monitoring. Middlebox policy enforcement is …

The past decades have seen a proliferation of middlebox deployment in various scenarios,
including backbone networks and cloud networks. Since flows have to traverse specific …