Packet Scheduling for Multiple-Switch Software-Defined Networking in Edge Computing Environment

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:7.96em"/><col style="width:20.23em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Field</td><td class="align_center">Description</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Match</td><td class="align_center">Port, packet header, and metadata forwarded from the previous flow table</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Priority</td><td class="align_center">Matching precedence of the entry</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Counter</td><td class="align_center">Statistics for matching the packets</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Instruction</td><td class="align_center">Action or pipeline processing</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Timeout</td><td class="align_center">Maximum effective time or free time before the entry is overdue</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Cookie</td><td class="align_center">Opaque data sent by the OpenFlow controller</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>The fields of an entry of a flow table.</div>

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Table 1: Packet Scheduling for Multiple-Switch Software-Defined Networking in Edge Computing Environment 