Data plane programmability beyond openflow: Opportunities and challenges for network and service operations and management

WL da Costa Cordeiro, JA Marques… - Journal of Network and …, 2017 - Springer
SDN and OpenFlow reshaped the way we configure forwarding devices and determine
network behavior, by offering an open interface upon which apps like routing, monitoring …

Refining network intents for self-driving networks

AS Jacobs, RJ Pfitscher, RA Ferreira… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer an opportunity for the adoption of self-
driving networks. However, network operators or home-network users still do not have the …

INSpIRE: Integrated NFV-based intent refinement environment

EJ Scheid, CC Machado, MF Franco… - 2017 IFIP/IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many aspects of the management of computer networks, such as quality of service and
security, must be taken into consideration to ensure that the network meets the users and …

A survey of policy refinement methods as a support for sustainable networks

AC Riekstin, GC Januario, BB Rodrigues… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Green sustainability-oriented features have become common in network nodes and
protocols. Running a network in an energy-efficient way is an important concern of network …

Towards a self-driving management system for the automated realization of intents

K Dzeparoska, N Beigi-Mohammadi… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network management faces the interrelated challenges of increasing network complexity,
meeting sophisticated business requirements, and being subject to human oversight. Self …

CLARA: Closed loop-based zero-touch network management framework

NFS de Sousa, CE Rothenberg - 2021 IEEE Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolving 5G systems are adopting strategic technologies such as SDN, NFV, Network
Slicing, and Intent-based Networking to provide flexibility, programmability, and more …

Environment-adaptive sizing and placement of NFV service chains with accelerated reinforcement learning

M Nakanoya, Y Sato… - 2019 IFIP/IEEE symposium …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As network function virtualization spread, network service providers have been able to
deliver various networks flexibly and rapidly. In particular, products and services that build …

Agile network access control in the container age

C Diekmann, J Naab, A Korsten… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Linux containers, such as those managed by Docker, are an increasingly popular way to
package and deploy complex applications. However, the fundamental security primitive of …

Towards SLA policy refinement for QoS management in software-defined networking

CC Machado, LZ Granville… - 2014 IEEE 28th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a dynamic, adaptable, controllable and flexible
network architecture. It provides an extensible platform for delivery of network services …

Policy authoring for software-defined networking management

CC Machado, JA Wickboldt, LZ Granville… - 2015 IFIP/IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) permits centralizing part of the decision-logic in
controller devices. Thus, controllers can have an overall view of the network, assisting …