A survey of deployment solutions and optimization strategies for hybrid SDN networks

X Huang, S Cheng, K Cao, P Cong… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hybrid software defined networks (SDN) network contains both traditional and SDN
network, which combines the robustness of traditional protocols with the flexibility of SDN …

Online elephant flow prediction for load balancing in programmable switch based DCN

S Xie, G Hu, C Xing, Y Liu - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the data center network, traffic has a distinct heavy-tailed distribution characteristic, with
the minority of throughput-sensitive elephant flows occupy most of the bandwidth and the …

CountMax: A lightweight and cooperative sketch measurement for software-defined networks

X Yu, H Xu, D Yao, H Wang… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a software-defined network (SDN), statistics information is of vital importance for different
applications, such as traffic engineering, flow rerouting, and attack detection. Since some …

An enhanced saturation attack and its mitigation mechanism in software-defined networking

J Xu, L Wang, Z Xu - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables network operators to easily and
quickly manage, configure, and optimize network resources via decoupling the control logic …

Achieving high scalability through hybrid switching in software-defined networking

H Xu, H Huang, S Chen, G Zhao… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional networks rely on aggregate routing and decentralized control to achieve
scalability. On the contrary, software-defined networks achieve near optimal network …

PrePass: Load balancing with data plane resource constraints using commodity SDN switches

H Wang, H Xu, C Qian, J Ge, J Liu, H Huang - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Software Defined Networks (SDN) enables the network control logic to be designed
and operated on a global network view by decoupling the control plane from the data plane …

Incremental server deployment for scalable NFV-enabled networks

J Liu, H Xu, G Zhao, C Qian, X Fan… - IEEE INFOCOM 2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a new paradigm to enable service innovation
through virtualizing traditional network functions. To construct a new NFV-enabled network …

Achieving fine-grained flow management through hybrid rule placement in SDNs

G Zhao, H Xu, J Fan, L Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fine-grained flow management is useful in many practical applications, eg, resource
allocation, anomaly detection and traffic engineering. However, it is difficult to provide fine …

HQTimer: A Hybrid -Learning-Based Timeout Mechanism in Software-Defined Networks

Q Li, N Huang, D Wang, X Li, Y Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) has enabled flexible control over the network by
leveraging data plane programming languages such as OpenFlow. However, this fine …

HybridFlow: Achieving load balancing in software-defined WANs with scalable routing

Z Guo, S Dou, Y Wang, S Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The scalability issue hinders the deployment of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in the
Wide Area Networks (WANs). Existing solutions have two issues:(1) network performance …