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 survey on software-defined networking

W Xia, 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 …

Advancing software-defined networks: A survey

JH Cox, J Chung, S Donovan, J Ivey, RJ Clark… - Ieee …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Having gained momentum from its promise of centralized control over distributed network
architectures at bargain costs, software-defined Networking (SDN) is an ever-increasing …

A survey of software-defined networking: Past, present, and future of programmable networks

BAA Nunes, M Mendonca, XN Nguyen… - … surveys & tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The idea of programmable networks has recently re-gained considerable momentum due to
the emergence of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. SDN, often referred to …

A survey on software-defined network and openflow: From concept to implementation

F Hu, Q Hao, K Bao - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined network (SDN) has become one of the most important architectures for the
management of largescale complex networks, which may require repolicing or …

A comprehensive survey of load balancing techniques in software-defined network

M Hamdan, E Hassan, A Abdelaziz, A Elhigazi… - Journal of Network and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A software-defined network (SDN) separates the network control plane from the data
forwarding plane. SDN has shown significant benefits in many ways compared to …

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 …

GENI: A federated testbed for innovative network experiments

M Berman, JS Chase, L Landweber, A Nakao, M Ott… - Computer Networks, 2014 - Elsevier
GENI, the Global Environment for Networking Innovation, is a distributed virtual laboratory
for transformative, at-scale experiments in network science, services, and security. Designed …

Survey on network virtualization hypervisors for software defined networking

A Blenk, A Basta, M Reisslein… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a promising paradigm for making the
control of communication networks flexible. SDN separates the data packet forwarding …

A network in a laptop: rapid prototyping for software-defined networks

B Lantz, B Heller, N McKeown - Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Mininet is a system for rapidly prototyping large networks on the constrained resources of a
single laptop. The lightweight approach of using OS-level virtualization features, including …