Validating User Flows to Protect Software Defined Network Environments

Table 3

Key parameters for our simulation.

Parameters	Value
Number of controllers (OpenFlow)	3
Number of switches	8
Number of hosts (per switch)	4
(Hosts) topology	Star topology
Flow table size	8,000 entries
Buffer capacity	10
Trust value	100 (maximum)
Number of flows	116
Average attack rate	25 requests per seconds
Simulation time	300 seconds
Flow timeout	2 seconds