Gul Nawaz¹, Muhammad Junaid¹, Adnan Akhunzada², Abdullah Gani^2,*, Shamyla Nawazish³, Asim Yaqub³, Adeel Ahmed¹, Huma Ajab⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 2157-2178, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.026952

Abstract Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is the most common attack that obstructs a network and makes it unavailable for a legitimate user. We proposed a deep neural network (DNN) model for the detection of DDoS attacks in the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. SDN centralizes the control plane and separates it from the data plane. It simplifies a network and eliminates vendor specification of a device. Because of this open nature and centralized control, SDN can easily become a victim of DDoS attacks. We proposed a supervised Developed Deep Neural Network (DDNN) model that can classify the DDoS attack traffic… More >

Laila M. Halman, Mohammed J. F. Alenazi^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.2, pp. 1469-1483, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.028077

Abstract The healthcare sector holds valuable and sensitive data. The amount of this data and the need to handle, exchange, and protect it, has been increasing at a fast pace. Due to their nature, software-defined networks (SDNs) are widely used in healthcare systems, as they ensure effective resource utilization, safety, great network management, and monitoring. In this sector, due to the value of the data, SDNs face a major challenge posed by a wide range of attacks, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) and probe attacks. These attacks reduce network performance, causing the degradation of different key performance indicators (KPIs)… More > Graphic Abstract

Jiangyuan Yao¹, Weiping Yang¹, Shuhua Weng¹, Minrui Wang¹, Zheng Jiang², Deshun Li^1,*, Yahui Li³, Xingcan Cao⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.1, pp. 741-755, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.031531

Abstract Software-defined networking (SDN) is widely used in multiple types of data center networks, and these distributed data center networks can be integrated into a multi-domain SDN by utilizing multiple controllers. However, the network topology of each control domain of SDN will affect the performance of the multi-domain network, so performance evaluation is required before the deployment of the multi-domain SDN. Besides, there is a high cost to build real multi-domain SDN networks with different topologies, so it is necessary to use simulation testing methods to evaluate the topological performance of the multi-domain SDN network. As there is a lack of… More >

Sultan Alkhliwi^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 4735-4752, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037141

Abstract Software-defined networking (SDN) algorithms are gaining increasing interest and are making networks flexible and agile. The basic idea of SDN is to move the control planes to more than one server’s named controllers and limit the data planes to numerous sending network components, enabling flexible and dynamic network management. A distinctive characteristic of SDN is that it can logically centralize the control plane by utilizing many physical controllers. The deployment of the controller—that is, the controller placement problem (CPP)—becomes a vital model challenge. Through the advancements of blockchain technology, data integrity between nodes can be enhanced with no requirement for… More >

Jiangyuan Yao¹, Jiawen Wang¹, Shuhua Weng¹, Minrui Wang¹, Deshun Li^1,*, Yahui Li², Xingcan Cao³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.2, pp. 1783-1796, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.034265

Abstract With the increasing number of switches in Software-Defined Networking (SDN), there are more and more faults rising in the data plane. However, due to the existence of link redundancy and multi-path forwarding mechanisms, these problems cannot be detected in time. The current faulty path detection mechanisms have problems such as the large scale of detection and low efficiency, which is difficult to meet the requirements of efficient faulty path detection in large-scale SDN. Concerning this issue, we propose an efficient network path fault testing model ProbD based on probability detection. This model achieves a high probability of detecting arbitrary path… More >

Prohim Tam¹, Sa Math¹, Seokhoon Kim^1,2,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.2, pp. 2141-2154, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.030984

Abstract Edge intelligence brings the deployment of applied deep learning (DL) models in edge computing systems to alleviate the core backbone network congestions. The setup of programmable software-defined networking (SDN) control and elastic virtual computing resources within network functions virtualization (NFV) are cooperative for enhancing the applicability of intelligent edge softwarization. To offer advancement for multi-dimensional model task offloading in edge networks with SDN/NFV-based control softwarization, this study proposes a DL mechanism to recommend the optimal edge node selection with primary features of congestion windows, link delays, and allocatable bandwidth capacities. Adaptive partial task offloading policy considered the DL-based recommendation to… More >

Aqsa Aqdus¹, Rashid Amin^1,*, Sadia Ramzan¹, Sultan S. Alshamrani², Abdullah Alshehri³, El-Sayed M. El-kenawy⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1413-1435, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031719

Abstract The rapid advancement of wireless communication is forming a hyper-connected 5G network in which billions of linked devices generate massive amounts of data. The traffic control and data forwarding functions are decoupled in software-defined networking (SDN) and allow the network to be programmable. Each switch in SDN keeps track of forwarding information in a flow table. The SDN switches must search the flow table for the flow rules that match the packets to handle the incoming packets. Due to the obvious vast quantity of data in data centres, the capacity of the flow table restricts the data plane’s forwarding capabilities.… More >

Mohammad Adnan Aladaileh, Mohammed Anbar^*, Iznan H. Hasbullah, Abdullah Ahmed Bahashwan, Shadi Al-Sarawn

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1403-1416, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029369

Abstract The emergence of a new network architecture, known as Software Defined Networking (SDN), in the last two decades has overcome some drawbacks of traditional networks in terms of performance, scalability, reliability, security, and network management. However, the SDN is vulnerable to security threats that target its controller, such as low-rate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, The low-rate DDoS attack is one of the most prevalent attacks that poses a severe threat to SDN network security because the controller is a vital architecture component. Therefore, there is an urgent need to propose a detection approach for this type of attack… More >

Olga Ussatova^1,2, Aidana Zhumabekova^1,*, Yenlik Begimbayeva^2,3, Eric T. Matson⁴, Nikita Ussatov⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 577-594, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026552

Abstract The fast development of Internet technologies ignited the growth of techniques for information security that protect data, networks, systems, and applications from various threats. There are many types of threats. The dedicated denial of service attack (DDoS) is one of the most serious and widespread attacks on Internet resources. This attack is intended to paralyze the victim's system and cause the service to fail. This work is devoted to the classification of DDoS attacks in the special network environment called Software-Defined Networking (SDN) using machine learning algorithms. The analyzed dataset included instances of two classes: benign and malicious. As the… More >

Ghalib H. Alshammri^1,2, Amani K. Samha³, Ezz El-Din Hemdan⁴, Mohammed Amoon^1,4, Walid El-Shafai^5,6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3529-3548, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025262

Abstract Network management and multimedia data mining techniques have a great interest in analyzing and improving the network traffic process. In recent times, the most complex task in Software Defined Network (SDN) is security, which is based on a centralized, programmable controller. Therefore, monitoring network traffic is significant for identifying and revealing intrusion abnormalities in the SDN environment. Consequently, this paper provides an extensive analysis and investigation of the NSL-KDD dataset using five different clustering algorithms: K-means, Farthest First, Canopy, Density-based algorithm, and Exception-maximization (EM), using the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) software to compare extensively between these five algorithms.… More >