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Software Defined Networking Flow Table Management of OpenFlow Switches Performance and Security Challenges: A Survey

Future Internet, ISSN: 1999-5903, Vol: 12, Issue: 9
2020
  • 83
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 138
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    83
    • Citation Indexes
      82
    • Patent Family Citations
      1
      • Patent Families
        1
  • Captures
    138

Review Description

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 called switches and the control plane is composed of controllers. SDN is gaining popularity from industry and academics due to its advantages such as centralized, flexible, and programmable network management. The increasing number of traffics due to the proliferation of the Internet of Thing (IoT) devices may result in two problems: (1) increased processing load of the controller, and (2) insufficient space in the switches’ flow table to accommodate the flow entries. These problems may cause undesired network behavior and unstable network performance, especially in large-scale networks. Many solutions have been proposed to improve the management of the flow table, reducing controller processing load, and mitigating security threats and vulnerabilities on the controllers and switches. This paper provides comprehensive surveys of existing schemes to ensure SDN meets the quality of service (QoS) demands of various applications and cloud services. Finally, potential future research directions are identified and discussed such as management of flow table using machine learning.

Bibliographic Details

Babangida Isyaku; Maznah Bte Kamat; Kamalrulnizam Abu Bakar; Fuad A. Ghaleb; Mohd Soperi Mohd Zahid

MDPI AG

Computer Science

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