Combining software-defined networking with Internet of Things: Survey on security and performance aspects

With increasing number of devices that are used in the paradigm of the Internet of Things, a need for managing these devices and its applications has popped up. In addition to the need for protecting it appropriately and effectively to ensure its full functional performance. Software-Defined Networking has been suggested so as to overcome the problems of Traditional Networking. The SDN became able to separate the logical and control operations in the distributed devices located in the network layer, by moving it to the central control layer that carries out administrative matters of this network. This survey paper contains a comparison between the Internet of Things that is enabled by Traditional Networking and Software-Defined Networking. Starting with defining different architectures, crossing to the main issues for both and ending with performance measuring to evaluate the SDN concluding to the possibility of applying it.