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 …

Performance issues and solutions in SDN-based data center: a survey

A Shirmarz, A Ghaffari - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2020 - Springer
Due to the development of the Internet and the smart end systems such as smartphones,
portable laptop, and other smart mobile devices, as well as the emergence of concepts such …

The loft attack: Overflowing SDN flow tables at a low rate

J Cao, M Xu, Q Li, K Sun, Y Yang - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is being adopted by data centers and
cloud service providers to enable flexible control. Meanwhile, the current SDN design brings …

Proactive eviction of flow entry for SDN based on hidden Markov model

G Huang, HY Youn - Frontiers of Computer Science, 2020 - Springer
With the fast development of software defined network (SDN), numerous researches have
been conducted for maximizing the performance of SDN. Currently, flow tables are utilized in …

TimeoutX: An adaptive flow table management method in software defined networks

L Zhang, S Wang, S Xu, R Lin… - 2015 IEEE Global …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Software Defined Networks (SDN), applications on the controller could enforce fine-
grained control on flows by policies employing more packet fields. These policies are …

A flow table with two-stage timeout mechanism for SDN switches

X Li, Y Huang - 2019 IEEE 21st International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Software-Defined Network (SDN), OpenFlow implements fine-grained network policy by
installing rules in the switch flow table. Limited by memory capacity, inactive flows have to be …

Practical flow table aggregation in SDN

S Luo, H Yu, L Li - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
In OpenFlow-driven SDN, flow tables are TCAM-hungry; commodity switches suffer from
limited concrete flow table size. One method for coping with the limitations is to use …

Flow-based service time optimization in software-defined networks using deep reinforcement learning

M Jiménez-Lázaro, J Berrocal… - Computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract A Ternary Content-Addressable Memory (TCAM) constitutes a memory variant
employed within Software Defined Networking (SDN) node flow tables. These TCAMs …

TF-IdleTimeout: Improving efficiency of TCAM in SDN by dynamically adjusting flow entry lifecycle

M Lu, W Deng, Y Shi - 2016 IEEE international conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) is widely used for caching flow entries in
Software Defined Network (SDN). However, limited by the current technology level and …

Protection against flow table overflow attack in software defined networks

SK Noh, M Kang, M Park - 2021 International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a history-based dynamic timeout scheme to alleviate the flow table
overflow attack which is one of typical attacks against Software Defined Networks (SDN). We …