A survey on software-defined networking

W **a, Y Wen, CH Foh, D Niyato… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging mega-trends (eg, mobile, social, cloud, and big data) in information and
communication technologies (ICT) are commanding new challenges to future Internet, for …

Network innovation using openflow: A survey

A Lara, A Kolasani… - … communications surveys & …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
OpenFlow is currently the most commonly deployed Software Defined Networking (SDN)
technology. SDN consists of decoupling the control and data planes of a network. A software …

Composing software defined networks

C Monsanto, J Reich, N Foster, J Rexford… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2013 - usenix.org
Managing a network requires support for multiple concurrent tasks, from routing and traffic
monitoring, to access control and server load balancing. Software-Defined Networking …

Distributed logical L3 routing

T Koponen, R Zhang, M Casado, P Thakkar… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
A novel method for configuring first and second managed forwarding elements to perform
logical L2 switching and L3 routing is described. The method generates a first set of flow …

Method and apparatus for implementing and managing distributed virtual switches in several hosts and physical forwarding elements

M Casado, P Ingram, KE Amidon, PJ Balland III… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
In general, the present invention relates to a virtual platform in which one or more distributed
virtual switches can be created for use in virtual networking. According to some aspects, the …

Route advertisement by managed gateways

A Tubaltsev, R Zhang, BC Basler, S Maskalik… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
US9590901B2 - Route advertisement by managed gateways - Google Patents
US9590901B2 - Route advertisement by managed gateways - Google Patents Route …

Multiple active L3 gateways for logical networks

P Thakkar, EJ Jackson, BC Basler - US Patent 9,577,845, 2017 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for a network con troller in a network control system
that manages a plurality of logical networks. The method receives a specification of a logical …

Centralized logical L3 routing

R Zhang, P Thakkar, JE Gross IV, J Pettit… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
2012-11-26 Assigned to NICIRA, INC. reassignment NICIRA, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: AMIDON, KEITH E …

Virtualizing the network forwarding plane

M Casado, T Koponen, R Ramanathan… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Modern system design often employs virtualization to decouple the system service model
from its physical realization. Two common examples are the virtualization of computing …

WAN optimizer for logical networks

A Padmanabhan, R Zhang, P Thakkar… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine readable medium of a controller of a
network control system for configuring a wide area network (WAN) optimizer instance to …