Hybrid SDN networks: A survey of existing approaches

R Amin, M Reisslein, N Shah - IEEE Communications Surveys …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software defined networking (SDN) decouples the control plane from the data plane of
forwarding devices. This separation provides several benefits, including the simplification of …

Software defined networking architecture, security and energy efficiency: A survey

DB Rawat, SR Reddy - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm, which breaks the vertical
integration in traditional networks to provide the flexibility to program the network through …

Scalability, consistency, reliability and security in SDN controllers: a survey of diverse SDN controllers

S Ahmad, AH Mir - Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Software Defined Networking simplifies design, monitoring and management of
next generation networks by segregating a legacy network into a centralized control plane …

Softwarization of UAV networks: A survey of applications and future trends

OS Oubbati, M Atiquzzaman, TA Ahanger… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in assisting 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G) mobile networks. Indeed, UAVs have all the potentials to both satisfy the …

Software defined networking flow table management of openflow switches performance and security challenges: A survey

B Isyaku, MS Mohd Zahid, M Bte Kamat, K Abu Bakar… - Future Internet, 2020 - mdpi.com
Software defined networking (SDN) is an emerging network paradigm that decouples the
control plane from the data plane. The data plane is composed of forwarding elements …

Software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN): Architecture, advances and opportunities

Z Yang, Y Cui, B Li, Y Liu, Y Xu - 2019 28th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging applications and operational scenarios raise strict requirements for long-distance
data transmission, driving network operators to design wide area networks from a new …

Cacheflow: Dependency-aware rule-caching for software-defined networks

N Katta, O Alipourfard, J Rexford, D Walker - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows control applications to install fine-grained
forwarding policies in the underlying switches. While Ternary Content Addressable Memory …

B4 and after: managing hierarchy, partitioning, and asymmetry for availability and scale in google's software-defined WAN

CY Hong, S Mandal, M Al-Fares, M Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Private WANs are increasingly important to the operation of enterprises, telecoms, and cloud
providers. For example, B4, Google's private software-defined WAN, is larger and growing …

Survey of consistent software-defined network updates

KT Foerster, S Schmid… - … Communications Surveys & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer networks have become a critical infrastructure. In fact, networks should not only
meet strict requirements in terms of correctness, availability, and performance but they …

{Semi-oblivious} traffic engineering: The road not taken

P Kumar, Y Yuan, C Yu, N Foster, R Kleinberg… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2018 - usenix.org
Networks are expected to provide reliable performance under a wide range of operating
conditions, but existing traffic engineering (TE) solutions optimize for performance or …