The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

Emerging mega-trends (eg, mobile, social, cloud, and big data) in information and
communication technologies (ICT) are commanding new challenges to future Internet, for …

With the advent of cloud computing, many new networking concepts have been introduced
to simplify network management and bring innovation through network programmability. The …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture has emerged in response to
limitations of traditional networking architectures in satisfying today's complex networking …

Software Defined Networking (SDN) marks a paradigm shift towards an externalized and
logically centralized network control plane. A particularly important task in SDN architectures …

The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from
the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact …

Software defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a promising paradigm for making the
control of communication networks flexible. SDN separates the data packet forwarding …

Software-defined networks offer flexible and intelligent network operations by splitting a
traditional network into a centralized control plane and a programmable data plane. The …

With the introduction of Software Defined Networking (SDN), the concept of an external and
optionally centralized network control plane, ie controller, is drawing the attention of …

The control plane is an essential part of the SDN architecture, so it is very important to give
proper attention to any proposal or design of an SDN controller. During the past few years …