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These solutions are based on separated packet and circuit planes that cannot utilize an optical circuit with flows that do not arrive from or delivered to switches directly connected to the circuit's end-points. Moreover, current SDN-based elephant flow re-routing methods require a forwarding rule for each flow, which raises scalability issues.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            In this paper, we present\n            <jats:italic>C-Share<\/jats:italic>\n            - a scalable SDN-based circuit sharing solution for data center networks.\n            <jats:italic>C-Share<\/jats:italic>\n            inherently enables elephant flows to share optical circuits by exploiting a flat top-of-rack tier network topology.\n            <jats:italic>C-Share<\/jats:italic>\n            is based on a scalable and decoupled SDN-based elephant flow re-routing method comprised of elephant flow detection, tagging and identification, which is utilized by using a prevalent network sampling method (e.g., sFlow).\n            <jats:italic>C-Share<\/jats:italic>\n            requires only a single OpenFlow rule for each optical circuit, and therefore significantly reduces the required OpenFlow rule entry footprint and setup rule rate. It also mitigates the OpenFlow outbound latency for subsequent elephant flows. We implement a proof-of-concept system for\n            <jats:italic>C-Share<\/jats:italic>\n            based on Mininet, and test the scalability of\n            <jats:italic>C-Share<\/jats:italic>\n            by using an event-driven simulation. 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