… To address such attacks, we model the control plane design as a bilevel … layer failure/attack,
even though we can re-establish the control plane with either IP rerouting in the packet layer …

… We develop a new, general multilayer graph control plane … control plane verification tool
that also accounts for layer 2.5 protocols, like VLANs. We note that today’s trade-off between …

… network control plane would be the equivalent of a computer OS for multilayer, multi-domain
networks… network layers, for instance between the IP/MPLS layers and the OTN/optical …

… To simultaneously exploit the efficiency of data plane and the flexibility of control plane,
we propose Carlo, a cross-plane collaborative optimization framework to support the network-…

… Firstly, divide the SDN control plane into two layers, the primary controller layer was deployed
on the ground network, and the secondary on the space-based network. The SDN data …

… 1) Influence of the number of GCN layers: The number of GCN layers in our multimodal …
To assess this impact, we adjusted the number of GCN layers from 1 to 5 in the Arnes network …

… exploit the spectrum resources in the physical layer of optical networks. Moreover, by …
control-plane functionalities and providing a global network view, SDN enables advanced network …

… information to network elements in the form of data models from the control plane and the …
is to ensure the interaction of the SDN control layer with networks of legacy technologies that …

… to fail or be shut down, resulting in disconnection between the control plane and data plane,
even causing destruction of the entire network operation in the satellite/aerial domain. To …

… make this virtual control plane tree topology survivable against single link failure by utilizing
… that our proposed control plane design performs better than existing control plane designs …