[HTML][HTML] Software defined networking flow table management of openflow switches performance and security challenges: A survey

B Isyaku, MS Mohd Zahid, M Bte Kamat, K Abu Bakar… - Future Internet, 2020 - mdpi.com
Software defined networking (SDN) is an emerging network paradigm that decouples the
control plane from the data plane. The data plane is composed of forwarding elements …

Rules placement problem in OpenFlow networks: A survey

XN Nguyen, D Saucez, C Barakat… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) abstracts low-level network functionalities to simplify
network management and reduce costs. The OpenFlow protocol implements the SDN …

STAR: Preventing flow-table overflow in software-defined networks

Z Guo, R Liu, Y Xu, A Gushchin, A Walid, HJ Chao - Computer Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables network innovation and
flexible control for network operations. A key component of SDN is the flow table at each …

Intelligent timeout master: Dynamic timeout for SDN-based data centers

H Zhu, H Fan, X Luo, Y Jin - 2015 IFIP/IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Defined Networks (SDN) such as OpenFlow provides better network management
for data center by decoupling control plane from data plane. Current OpenFlow controllers …

Effective switch memory management in OpenFlow networks

A Vishnoi, R Poddar, V Mann… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
OpenFlow networks require installation of flow rules in a limited capacity switch memory
(Ternary Content Addressable Memory or TCAMs, in particular) from a logically centralized …

SFTO-Guard: Real-time detection and mitigation system for slow-rate flow table overflow attacks

D Tang, D Zhang, Z Qin, Q Yang, S Xiao - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The simplified data plane of Software-Defined Network (SDN) should be able to process
packets from the entire network. However, the flow table size constrains the data plane …

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 …

A Table Overflow LDoS Attack Defending Mechanism in Software‐Defined Networks

S Xie, C Xing, G Zhang, J Zhao - Security and Communication …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In order to achieve requirements such as fast search of flow entries and mask matching,
OpenFlow hardware switches usually use TCAM to store flow entries. Limited by the …

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 …

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 …