Packet classification is an enabling function for a variety of Internet applications including
quality of service, security, monitoring, and multimedia communications. In order to classify a …

Traditional networking is hardware-based, having the control plane coupled with the data
plane. Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which has a logically centralized control plane …

We describe the design and implementation of Open vSwitch, a multi-layer, open source
virtual switch for all major hypervisor platforms. Open vSwitch was designed de novo for …

The main task of future networks is to build, as much as possible, intelligent networking
architectures for intellectualization, activation, and customization. Software-defined …

Multi-tenant datacenters represent an extremely challenging networking environment.
Tenants want the ability to migrate unmodified workloads from their enterprise networks to …

Ideally, enterprise administrators could specify fine-grain policies that drive how the
underlying switches forward, drop, and measure traffic. However, existing techniques for …

Packet classification is an enabling technology for next generation network services and
often a performance bottleneck in high-performance routers. The performance and capacity …

Software Defined Networks (SDNs) support diverse network policies by offering direct,
network-wide control over how switches handle traffic. Unfortunately, many controller …

Packet classification is a fundamental problem in computer networking. This problem
exposes a hard tradeoff between the computation and state complexity, which makes it …

We present CoVisor, a new kind of network hypervisor that enables, in a single network, the
deployment of multiple control applications written in different programming languages and …