Research Article

Elephant Flow Detection Mechanism in SDN-Based Data Center Networks

Algorithm 1

Process of ADU-Server.
Input: Packet_in
Output: elephant flow info
(1) When wait for Packet_in
(2)If package.src_ip == ADU-IP
(3) data = getTcpData (package)
(4) elephant_flow.src_ip = data [0: 3]
(5) elephant_flow.size = data [4:]
(6) return elephant_flow
(7)Else
(8) return NULL