A survey: Control plane scalability issues and approaches in software-defined networking (SDN)

M Karakus, A Durresi - Computer Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
Control plane: An SDN control plane comprises a set of software-based SDN controller(s)
to provide control functionality in order to supervise the network forwarding behavior through C…

Comparative analysis of control plane security of SDN and conventional networks

AR Abdou, PC Van Oorschot… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We refrain from speculating on which type of SDN is better, or is the future. We study and
compare the control plane security of a pure SDN (hereafter referred to as SDN) and a CN. …

A distributed and robust SDN control plane for transactional network updates

M Canini, P Kuznetsov, D Levin… - 2015 IEEE conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This paper studies a distributed SDN control plane that … the data plane and a distributed
control plane (consisting of a … We show that the ability of an f-resilient distributed control plane

Decentralized SDN control plane for a distributed cloud-edge infrastructure: A survey

DE Sarmiento, A Lebre, L Nussbaum… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… to design and implement SDN solutions able to … SDN control planes. It delivers an interesting
analysis of the fundamental issues found when trying to decentralize an SDN control plane. …

A database approach to sdn control plane design

B Davie, T Koponen, J Pettit, B Pfaff, M Casado… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
SDN-based system that supports … plane interoperability had been largely addressed by
widespread support for the VXLAN tunnel encapsulation [18]. However, no existing control plane

Pratyaastha: an efficient elastic distributed sdn control plane

A Krishnamurthy, SP Chandrabose… - Proceedings of the third …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
… We presented Pratyaastha, an efficient and elastic distributed SDN control plane that jointly
minimizes inter-controller communication and resource consumption to address the above is…

Toward disaggregating the SDN control plane

D Comer, A Rastegarnia - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of SDN controllers. • We describe steps taken toward disaggregating the SDN control
plane, … In the following section we explain the concept of SDN control plane disaggregation. …

Dynamic control plane for SDN at scale

B Görkemli, S Tatlıcıoğlu, AM Tekalp… - IEEE Journal on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… -ofthe-art in SDN control plane scalability is provided by [11]. We can classify prior works
on improving SDN control plane performance as those addressing controller location/workload, …

Scotch: Elastically scaling up sdn control-plane using vswitch based overlay

A Wang, Y Guo, F Hao, TV Lakshman… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
… The higher control plane capacity can be attributed to the more … the SDN control plane
capacity when needed without sacrificing any of the advantages of SDN regarding the controller

Controller placement strategies for a resilient SDN control plane

P Vizarreta, CM Machuca… - 2016 8th international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… and management by introducing a logically centralized control plane. However,
outsourcing of the control plane intelligence to an SDN controller requires reliable switchto-controller