Software-defined Networking (SDN) marked the beginning of a new era in the field of
networking by decoupling the control and forwarding processes through the OpenFlow …

Programmable data planes allow users to define their own data plane algorithms for network
devices including appropriate data plane application programming interfaces (APIs) which …

Traditionally, the data plane has been designed with fixed functions to forward packets using
a small set of protocols. This closed-design paradigm has limited the capability of the …

Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising technology that provides
flexibility, programmability, and network automation by shifting the network intelligence to …

Traditionally, the networking industry has been dominated by closed and proprietary
hardware and software. Vendors have been controlling the network by hard-coding how …

This paper presents CLB, a programmable switch-based general-purpose in-network load
balancer that can adapt to traffic changes at a very high speed. It uses Weighted-Cost …

In data center networks, existing control plane-and end host-based load-balancing methods
are encumbered by excessively large decision delays during rapid reactions to microbursts …

Data center networks offer multiple parallel paths between a source-destination pair. But,
due to the use of TCAM based single logical steppath-search and selection'mechanism in …

With the rapid growth of different massive applications and parallel flow requests in Data
Center Networks (DCNs), today's providers are confronting challenges in flow forwarding …

Layer-3 load balancing is a key topic in the networking field. It is well acknowledged that
flowlet is the most promising solution because of its good trade-off between load balance …