State of the Art and Recent Research Advances in Software Defined Networking

Table 2

OpenFlow Flow Table Entries.

Parameter	Match fields	Counters	Instructions
Functionality	Matching packet headers, ingress ports, instructions and previous table metadata	Update respective counters based on packet matches	Apply per flow actions
Purpose	Traffic segregation for further processing	Measuring flow statistics, real-time traffic monitoring	Flow routing, metering, queueing, QoS, and so forth