Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Programmable data plane technologies enable the systematic reconfiguration of the low-
level processing steps applied to network packets and are key drivers toward realizing the …

Over the years middleboxes have become a fundamental part of today's networks. Despite
their usefulness, they come with a number of problems, many of which arise from the fact …

Diverse proprietary network appliances increase both the capital and operational expense
of service providers, meanwhile causing problems of network ossification. Network function …

Networks today rely on middleboxes to provide critical performance, security, and policy
compliance capabilities. Achieving these benefits and ensuring that the traffic is directed …

Limiting the overhead of frequent events on the control plane is essential for realizing a
scalable Software-Defined Network. One way of limiting this overhead is to process frequent …

Internet of things (IoT) facilitates billions of devices to be enabled with network connectivity
to collect and exchange real-time information for providing intelligent services. Thus, IoT …

Having gained momentum from its promise of centralized control over distributed network
architectures at bargain costs, software-defined Networking (SDN) is an ever-increasing …

Middleboxes or network appliances like firewalls, proxies, and WAN optimizers have
become an integral part of today's ISP and enterprise networks. Middlebox functionalities …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising network architecture concept, in which
virtualization technologies are employed to manage networking functions via software as …