Sohail, TayyabMujtaba Ezaz, AghaAhmed, DanishAli, Zulfiqar2018-02-262018-02-262016https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2751Supervised by: Mrs. Fasiha AshrafThe internet has realized the making of an advanced society, in which practically everything is shared and is accessible from all over the place. At the same time disregarding their immense selection, customary IP systems are perplexing and truly extreme to manage. By far it is very hard to design the system with regards to predefined approaches, and to reconfigure it to react to flaws, load and changes. To make themes considerably more prominent troublesome, current systems additionally are vertically coordinated: the control and information planes are packaged by and large. Software defined networking paradigm is being attracted worldwide to carry out the research. SDN is ensuring such promising features that are allowing programmable network components and are separating the control plane and the forwarding plane. Numerous blessings are being furnished by SDN inclusive of flexibility without effecting the forwarding performance, it is also imparting excessive efficiency with optimized routing and furthermore it is ensuring ease of implementation, management and most above value discount. On the other hand, energy reduction in systems administration is an issue as energy saving cost contributes altogether to the general expenses in data and correspondence innovations. Therefore, energy effective frameworks for SDN segments have turned out to be basic. In this research we will be discussing energy efficient frameworks for SDN. In order to help researchers finding open challenges and proposing a sustainable approach, we will evaluate energy efficient and robust solutions for SDN without compromising the quality of service. Moreover this research will provide a comparative analysis on the existing solutions and identify their problems.  enCustomary IP systemsSDN inclusiveBS ThesisThesis