TY - EJOU AU - Kaur, Jagmeet AU - Ahmed, Shakeel AU - Kumar, Yogesh AU - Alaboudi, A. AU - Jhanjhi, N. Z. AU - Ijaz, Muhammad Fazal TI - Packet Optimization of Software Defined Network Using Lion Optimization T2 - Computers, Materials \& Continua PY - 2021 VL - 69 IS - 2 SN - 1546-2226 AB - There has been an explosion of cloud services as organizations take advantage of their continuity, predictability, as well as quality of service and it raises the concern about latency, energy-efficiency, and security. This increase in demand requires new configurations of networks, products, and service operators. For this purpose, the software-defined network is an efficient technology that enables to support the future network functions along with the intelligent applications and packet optimization. This work analyzes the offline cloud scenario in which machines are efficiently deployed and scheduled for user processing requests. Performance is evaluated in terms of reducing bandwidth, task execution times and latencies, and increasing throughput. A minimum execution time algorithm is used to compute the completion time of all the available resources which are allocated to the virtual machine and lion optimization algorithm is applied to packets in a cloud environment. The proposed work is shown to improve the throughput and latency rate. KW - Software-defined network; cloud computing; packet optimization; energy efficiency; lion optimization; minimum execution time DO - 10.32604/cmc.2021.017470