Software-defined networking (SDN) makes network management easier by using a
controller to govern all switches, but the controller may become a performance bottleneck …

The flow fluctuations in the highly dynamic Internet of Vehicles (IoV) make the IoV difficult to
provide reliable and scalable wireless network services for the emerging applications in the …

Abstract Internet of Vehicles (IoV) plays a fundamental role in the rapid development of
intelligent transportation systems and smart cities by the way of facilitating data access …

Enabling path programmability is an essential feature of Software-Defined Networking
(SDN). During controller failures in Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs), a …

Distributed controllers in software-defined networking (SDN) become a promising approach
because of their scalable and reliable deployments in current SDN environments. Since the …

Controller placement issue (CPI) in software-defined networks (SDNs) describes the
controllers' number, location, and assigning of forwarding devices to controllers. Recently …

Control latency is a critical concern for deploying Software-Defined Networking (SDN) into
Wide Area Networks (WANs). A Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) can be divided into …

Software-defined networks (SDNs) can improve network resource utilization and optimize
the performance of mobile cloud-edge computing networks (MECCNs) through unified and …

This paper investigates the problem of switch migration in software defined networking
(SDN)/network function virtualization (NFV)-based fifth generation (5G) networks in which …

Software-Defined Network is an emerging networking paradigm that enables intelligent and
flexible network management. Specifically, the design of the control plane is crucial …