Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Software defined networks provide new opportunities for automating the process of network debugging. Many tools have been developed to verify the correctness of network configurations on the control plane. Hover, due to software bugs and hardware faults of switches, the correctness of control plane may not readily translate into that of data plane. To bridge this gap,  present VeriDP, which can monitor "whether actual forwarding behaviors are complying with network configurations". Given that policies are ll-configured, operators can leverage VeriDP to monitor the correctness of the network data plane. In a nutshell, VeriDP lets switches tag packets that they forward, and report tags together with headers to the verification server before the packets leave the network. The verification server pre-computes all header-to-tag mappings based on the configuration, and checks whether the reported tags agree with the mappings.  prototype VeriDP with both software and hardware OpenFlow switches, and use emulation to show that VeriDP can detect common data plane fault including black holes and access violations, with a minimal impact on the data plane.
['Peng Zhang', 'Hao Li', 'Chengchen Hu', 'Liujia Hu', 'Lei Xiong']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Stick to the Script: Monitoring The Policy Compliance of SDN Data Plane
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