The invention provides a
software defined network for the power data communication and a
traffic grooming method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of communication session technology. The network comprises a
client terminal, a centralized controller and a plurality of switches compatible with the
OpenFlow protocol. The application of the
software defined network realizes the
global network view of the power data communication, and the
service quality is ensured to be high. The message interaction is conducted between the centralized controller and the switches compatible with the
OpenFlow protocol. Based on the dynamic flow statistical information provided by the switches, the centralized controller dynamically adjusts the idle_
timeout value. When the number of s data packets in the mated flow entry exceeds a given threshold, the value of the idle_
timeout value in the flow entry is increased to be larger than the interval time of the data packets. Therefore, the data packets can be matched with the flow entry without the need of reconstructing the flow entry. The
processing delay of communication data packets is shortened. Meanwhile, the power data communication efficiency of large data communication amount is increased.