Emerging mega-trends (eg, mobile, social, cloud, and big data) in information and
communication technologies (ICT) are commanding new challenges to future Internet, for …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm, which breaks the vertical
integration in traditional networks to provide the flexibility to program the network through …

A software-defined network (SDN) separates the network control plane from the data
forwarding plane. SDN has shown significant benefits in many ways compared to …

Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

OpenFlow is a great concept, but its original design imposes excessive overheads. It can
simplify network and traffic management in enterprise and data center environments …

Limiting the overhead of frequent events on the control plane is essential for realizing a
scalable Software-Defined Network. One way of limiting this overhead is to process frequent …

Software-defined networking (SDN) has recently gained unprecedented attention from
industry and research communities, and it seems unlikely that this will be attenuated in the …

This paper addresses one serious SDN-specific attack, ie, data-to-control plane saturation
attack, which overloads the infrastructure of SDN networks. In this attack, an attacker can …

The trend towards simple datacenter network fabric strips most network functionality,
including load balancing, out of the network core and pushes it to the edge. This slows …

While it has been a belief for over a decade that wireless sensor networks (WSN) are
application-specific, we argue that it can lead to resource underutilization and counter …