Capacity-aware and delay-guaranteed resilient controller placement for software-defined WANs

M Tanha, D Sajjadi, R Ruby… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, one of the main enablers for network evolution is software-defined networking
(SDN), where the control plane is decoupled from the data plane. A controller, as a …

The controller placement problem in software defined networking: A survey

G Wang, Y Zhao, J Huang, W Wang - IEEE network, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, a variety of solutions have been proposed to tackle the controller placement
problem in SDN. The objectives include minimizing the latency between controllers and their …

Capacitated next controller placement in software defined networks

BPR Killi, SV Rao - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software defined networking shifts the control plane of forwarding devices to one or more
external entities known as controllers. Determining the optimal location of controllers in the …

[HTML][HTML] A co-evolutionary genetic algorithm for robust and balanced controller placement in software-defined networks

G D'Angelo, F Palmieri - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
The controller placement problem (CPP) is one of the main issues that need to be
addressed in the context of Software Defined Networking (SDN), especially when different …

A comprehensive approach for optimizing controller placement in software-defined networks

G Schütz, JA Martins - Computer Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) are characterized by dividing a network
architecture in a data plane (ie, any packet-relaying nodes like switches or routers) and a …

Controller placements for latency minimization of both primary and backup paths in SDNs

Y Fan, L Wang, X Yuan - Computer Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Software-defined networking (SDN) is a revolutionary network architecture that separates
the network control layer from the underlying equipment. Multiple controllers form a logically …

On the placement of controllers for designing a wide area software defined networks

KS Sahoo, S Sahoo, A Sarkar… - TENCON 2017-2017 …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The newly emerged Software Defined Networks (SDN) can apply to Wide Area Network
(WAN) for network control and management. To achieve this, a logically centralized but a …

On the placement of controllers in software-defined networks

YN Hu, WD Wang, XY Gong, XR Que… - The Journal of China …, 2012 - Elsevier
The software-defined network (SDN) approach assumes a logically centralized control
plane, which is physically decoupled from the data plane. Since this approach simplifies …

A min-cover based controller placement approach to build reliable control network in SDN

Q Zhong, Y Wang, W Li, X Qiu - NOMS 2016-2016 IEEE/IFIP …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software defined network (SDN) develops a centralized control plane to manage the whole
network. If the scale of the network is large, it is necessary to deploy multiple distributed …

Controller placement in software defined networks: A comprehensive survey

BPR Killi, SV Rao - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Software defined networking (SDN) offers centralized network management and effective
resource utilization by offloading the intelligent control plane, responsible for routing and …