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Table 2 Comparison with other state-of-the-art approaches

From: Reducing the effects of DoS attacks in software defined networks using parallel flow installation

Approach/Reference

Mechanism used

Additional hardware

Switch modification

Loss of information

Additional delay

Kandoi et al. [7]

Flow aggregation

Idle timeout management

No

No

Yes

Yes

Kloti et al. [12]

Rate limiting

Flow aggregation

No

No

Yes

Yes

Belyaev et al. [21]

Load balancing

Yes

No

No

Yes

FlowSec [24]

Rate limiting

No

No

Yes

Yes

Padmaja et al. [25]

Flow rule for buffer action

No

Yes

No

Yes

SDN-Guard [26]

Flow aggregation

Timeout management

No

No

Yes

Yes

Zhang et al. [27]

Multi-layer queue management

No

No

No

Yes

FloodGuard [28]

Packet migration

Proactive flow rule calculation

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Wang et al. [29]

Controller load management

Yes

No

No

Yes

Proposed model

Parallel flow installation (PFI)

No

No

No

No