Toward adaptive and scalable OpenFlow-SDN flow control: A survey

M Alsaeedi, MM Mohamad, AA Al-Roubaiey - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging network architecture that promises to
simplify network management, improve network resource utilization, and boost evolution …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid SDN evolution: A comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art

S Khorsandroo, AG Sánchez, AS Tosun, JM Arco… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an evolutionary networking paradigm which
has been adopted by large network and cloud providers, among which are Tech Giants …

CFR-RL: Traffic engineering with reinforcement learning in SDN

J Zhang, M Ye, Z Guo, CY Yen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional Traffic Engineering (TE) solutions can achieve the optimal or near-optimal
performance by rerouting as many flows as possible. However, they do not usually consider …

A survey on the architecture, application, and security of software defined networking: Challenges and open issues

K Nisar, ER Jimson, MHA Hijazi, I Welch, R Hassan… - Internet of Things, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new technology that makes computer
networks farther programmable. SDN is currently attracting significant consideration from …

Deep reinforcement learning for adaptive caching in hierarchical content delivery networks

A Sadeghi, G Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Caching is envisioned to play a critical role in next-generation content delivery infrastructure,
cellular networks, and Internet architectures. By smartly storing the most popular contents at …

GRID: Gradient routing with in-network aggregation for distributed training

J Fang, G Zhao, H Xu, C Wu… - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the scale of distributed training increases, it brings huge communication overhead in
clusters. Some works try to reduce the communication cost through gradient compression or …

MARVEL: Enabling controller load balancing in software-defined networks with multi-agent reinforcement learning

P Sun, Z Guo, G Wang, J Lan, Y Hu - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
The control plane plays a significant role in Software-Defined Networking (SDN). A large
SDN usually implements its control plane with several distributed controllers, each …

Availability-and traffic-aware placement of parallelized SFC in data center networks

M Wang, B Cheng, S Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) brings flexible provisioning and great convenience for
enterprises outsource their network functions to the Data Center Networks (DCNs). Network …

An intelligent energy efficient optimized approach to control the traffic flow in Software-Defined IoT networks

SK Keshari, V Kansal, S Kumar, P Bansal - … Energy Technologies and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In modern society numerous digital devices play a very significant role in day-to-day life.
Digital devices are well connected and easily accessible through multiple sensors and …

A new GSO based method for SDN controller placement

S Torkamani-Azar, M Jahanshahi - Computer Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
In the context of wide area networks (WANs) and software defined networking (SDN),
reducing the communication delays experienced by the network devices is an important …