Existing surveys of research into software-defined networking (SDN) make only minimal
mention of multicasting. We present a survey of existing multicast routing protocols in …

Abstract The emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm is being adopted by
the telecom industry since it enables flexible network resource allocation, configuration and …

Software-defined networking separates the control and forwarding planes of a network to
make it more programmable and application-aware. As one of the initial implementations of …

To improve mobile users' quality-of-experience (QoE) in the mobile cyber-physical system
(MCPS), caching layered-coding contents on edge nodes that are close to mobile users has …

It is known that by leveraging programmable data plane, in-band network telemetry (INT)
can be realized to provide a powerful and promising method to collect realtime network …

Abstract Software Defined Network (SDN) has become one of the most preferred solutions
for the management of large-scale complex networks. The network policies in the large …

It has already been confirmed that software-defined networking (SDN) can make the
networks more programmable, adaptive and application aware. However, due to the large …

Recently, to adapt to the various quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of emerging
applications, application-driven network slicing has attracted intensive interests. In this …

The rapid development of software-defined networking (SDN) has promoted the idea of
programmable data plane (PDP), which opens up unprecedented opportunities for realizing …

Live video streaming traffic and related applications have experienced significant growth in
recent years. However, this has been accompanied by some challenging issues, especially …