Software-defined networking: A comprehensive survey

D Kreutz, FMV Ramos, PE Verissimo… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A comprehensive survey of interface protocols for software defined networks

Z Latif, K Sharif, F Li, MM Karim, S Biswas… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Software Defined Network implementation has seen tremendous growth and
deployment in different types of networks. Compared to traditional networks it decouples the …

A general approach to network configuration analysis

A Fogel, S Fung, L Pedrosa… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2015 - usenix.org
We present an approach to detect network configuration errors, which combines the benefits
of two prior approaches. Like prior techniques that analyze configuration files, our approach …

A survey on the security of stateful SDN data planes

T Dargahi, A Caponi, M Ambrosin… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) emerged as an attempt to introduce network innovations
faster, and to radically simplify and automate the management of large networks. SDN …

Pga: Using graphs to express and automatically reconcile network policies

C Prakash, J Lee, Y Turner, JM Kang, A Akella… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and cloud automation enable a large number of diverse
parties (network operators, application admins, tenants/end-users) and control programs …

Topology discovery in software defined networks: Threats, taxonomy, and state-of-the-art

S Khan, A Gani, AWA Wahab… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fundamental role of the software defined networks (SDNs) is to decouple the data plane
from the control plane, thus providing a logically centralized visibility of the entire network to …

Orion: Google's {Software-Defined} Networking Control Plane

AD Ferguson, S Gribble, CY Hong, C Killian… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2021 - usenix.org
We present Orion, a distributed Software-Defined Networking platform deployed globally in
Google's datacenter (Jupiter) and Wide Area (B4) networks. Orion was designed around a …

Checking beliefs in dynamic networks

NP Lopes, N Bjørner, P Godefroid… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2015 - usenix.org
Network Verification is a form of model checking in which a model of the network is checked
for properties stated using a specification language. Existing network verification tools lack a …

Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks

D Gibson, H Hariharan, E Lance, M McLaren… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2022 - usenix.org
Datacenter workloads have evolved from the data intensive, loosely-coupled workloads of
the past decade to more tightly coupled ones, wherein ultra-low latency communication is …

A survey on fault management in software-defined networks

PC Fonseca, ES Mota - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm that has become increasingly
popular in recent years. The core idea is to separate the control and data planes, allowing …