A Survey of Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Software Defined Networking (SDN): Research Issues and Challenges

Xie, Junfeng, Yu, F. Richard, Huang, Tao, Xie, Renchao, Liu, Jiang, Wang, Chenmeng, Liu, Yunjie·2019·IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
DOI 10.1109/comst.2018.2866942

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