Research Article

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

Table 1

The fields of an entry of a flow table.

FieldDescription

MatchPort, packet header, and metadata forwarded from the previous flow table

PriorityMatching precedence of the entry

CounterStatistics for matching the packets

InstructionAction or pipeline processing

TimeoutMaximum effective time or free time before the entry is overdue

CookieOpaque data sent by the OpenFlow controller