Traditional networking is hardware-based, having the control plane coupled with the data
plane. Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which has a logically centralized control plane …

Multi-field packet classification is a crucial component in modern software-defined data
center networks. To achieve high throughput and low latency, state-of-the-art algorithms …

Hardware/software hybrid flow table is common in modern commodity network devices, such
as NFV servers, smart NICs and SDN/OVS switches. The overall forwarding performance of …

To solve the problem of ambiguous attribute selection in existing decision tree classification
algorithms, a decision tree construction method based on information entropy, PCMIgr, is …

Packet classification is widely used in network infrastructures and is the key technique that
supports security and other functions. The real-time nature of network services naturally …

OpenFlow switches are being deployed in SDN to enable a wide spectrum of non-traditional
applications. As a promising alternative to brutal force TCAMs, FPGA-based packet …

Packet classification, as a crucial function of networks, has been extensively investigated. In
recent years, the rapid advancement of software-defined networking (SDN) has introduced …

Software Defined Network (SDN) currently is widely used in the implementation of new
network technologies owing to its distinctive advantages. In changeable SDN environments …

OpenFlow is a widely adopted dataplane protocol in software-defined networking (SDN).
However, the expansion of supported match fields in OpenFlow brings additional pressure …

At Presently, it is still a great challenge to achieve online classification of traffic flows due to
the highly varying network environments, eg, unpredictable new traffic classes, network …