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Automated Controller Placement for Software-Defined Networks to Resist DDoS Attacks

Muhammad Reazul Haque¹, Saw Chin Tan¹, Zulfadzli Yusoff^2,*, Kashif Nisar^3,5,6, Lee Ching Kwang^2,7, Rizaludin Kaspin⁴, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry⁵, Rajkumar Buyya⁸, Satya Prasad Majumder⁹, Manoj Gupta¹⁰, Shuaib Memon¹¹

1 Faculty of Computing & Informatics, Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, Cyberjaya, 63100, Selangor, Malaysia
2 Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, Cyberjaya, 63100, Selangor, Malaysia
3 Faculty of Computing and Informatics, University Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Kota Kinabalu Sabah, 88400, Malaysia
4 Telekom Malaysia Research & Development, TM Innovation Centre, Cyberjaya, 63000, Selangor, Malaysia
5 National Center of Robotics and Automation, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan
6 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Korea
7 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore
8 Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
9 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 1205, Bangladesh
10 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JECRC University, Vidhani, Jaipur, 303905, India
11 Auckland Institute of Studies, Mt Albert, Auckland, New Zealand

* Corresponding Author: Zulfadzli Yusoff. Email: