## 4 Energy Aware Software Defined Network (EASDN) Routing Algorithm
22A20130012814) funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), in part by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2019-2016-0-00313) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation), and in part by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2018R1D1A1A09082266). The authors also extend their appreciation to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. We would like to thank [PERSON] for providing us with an experimental setup. We are also thankful to all reviewers for their insightful comments to improve the quality of the manuscript. The authors declare no conflict of interest. ## References

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