A survey on the contributions of software-defined networking to traffic engineering

A Mendiola, J Astorga, E Jacob… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the appearance of OpenFlow back in 2008, software-defined networking (SDN) has
gained momentum. Although there are some discrepancies between the standards …

Rules placement problem in OpenFlow networks: A survey

XN Nguyen, D Saucez, C Barakat… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) abstracts low-level network functionalities to simplify
network management and reduce costs. The OpenFlow protocol implements the SDN …

[HTML][HTML] Software-defined networking: Categories, analysis, and future directions

M Hussain, N Shah, R Amin, SS Alshamrani, A Alotaibi… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Software-defined networking (SDN) is an innovative network architecture that splits the
control and management planes from the data plane. It helps in simplifying network …

Segment routing in software defined networks: A survey

ZN Abdullah, I Ahmad, I Hussain - … Communications Surveys & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segment routing (SR) has emerged as a promising source-routing methodology to
overcome the challenges in the current routing schemes. It has received noticeable attention …

Effective switch memory management in OpenFlow networks

A Vishnoi, R Poddar, V Mann… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
OpenFlow networks require installation of flow rules in a limited capacity switch memory
(Ternary Content Addressable Memory or TCAMs, in particular) from a logically centralized …

Highly-efficient and adaptive network monitoring: When INT meets segment routing

Q Zheng, S Tang, B Chen, Z Zhu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid development of software-defined networking (SDN) has promoted the idea of
programmable data plane (PDP), which opens up unprecedented opportunities for realizing …

JumpFlow: Reducing flow table usage in software-defined networks

Z Guo, Y Xu, M Cello, J Zhang, Z Wang, M Liu… - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
The forwarding scheme in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is usually coupled with flow
table management. To reduce the redundancy in the flow tables of OpenFlow switches …

OFFICER: A general optimization framework for OpenFlow rule allocation and endpoint policy enforcement

XN Nguyen, D Saucez, C Barakat… - 2015 IEEE Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Software-Defined Networking approach permits to realize new policies. In OpenFlow in
particular, a controller decides on behalf of the switches which forwarding rules must be …

AggreFlow: Achieving power efficiency, load balancing, and quality of service in data center networks

Z Guo, Y Xu, YF Liu, S Liu, HJ Chao… - IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power-efficient Data Center Networks (DCNs) have been proposed to save power of DCNs
using OpenFlow. In these DCNs, the OpenFlow controller adaptively turns on/off links and …

Optimizing rules placement in openflow networks: Trading routing for better efficiency

XN Nguyen, D Saucez, C Barakat… - Proceedings of the third …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The idea behind Software Defined Networking (SDN) is to conceive the network as one
programmable entity rather than a set of devices to manually configure, and OpenFlow …