SDN controllers: A comprehensive analysis and performance evaluation study

L Zhu, MM Karim, K Sharif, C Xu, F Li, X Du… - ACM Computing …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Software-defined networks offer flexible and intelligent network operations by splitting a
traditional network into a centralized control plane and a programmable data plane. The …

SDN controllers: Benchmarking & performance evaluation

L Zhu, MM Karim, K Sharif, F Li, X Du… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Software Defined Networks offer flexible and intelligent network operations by splitting a
traditional network into a centralized control plane and a programmable data plane. The …

Scalability, consistency, reliability and security in SDN controllers: a survey of diverse SDN controllers

S Ahmad, AH Mir - Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Software Defined Networking simplifies design, monitoring and management of
next generation networks by segregating a legacy network into a centralized control plane …

Controllers in SDN: A review report

M Paliwal, D Shrimankar, O Tembhurne - IEEE access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) is a networking scenario which changes the traditional
network architecture by bringing all control functionalities to a single location and making …

Design and deployment of secure, robust, and resilient SDN controllers

S Scott-Hayward - Proceedings of the 2015 1st IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The scale of the Software-Defined Network (SDN) Controller design problem has become
apparent with the expansion of SDN deployments. Initial SDN deployments were small …

Applying operating system principles to SDN controller design

M Monaco, O Michel, E Keller - … of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Rather than creating yet another network controller which provides a framework in a specific
(potentially new) programming language and runs as a monolithic application, in this paper …

On the performance of SDN controllers: A reality check

Y Zhao, L Iannone, M Riguidel - 2015 IEEE Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the Software Defined Network (SDN) ecosystem, the controller remains the cornerstone of
the architecture and the critical point of its success. That is why performance concerns have …

On the controller placement for designing a distributed SDN control layer

Y Jimenez, C Cervelló-Pastor… - 2014 IFIP Networking …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The software-defined network (SDN) advocates a centralized network control, where a
controller manages a network from a global view of the network. Large SDN networks may …

Distributed SDN controller system: A survey on design choice

YE Oktian, SG Lee, HJ Lee, JH Lam - computer networks, 2017 - Elsevier
Although within SDN community, the notion of logically centralized network control is well
understood and agreed upon, many different approaches exist on how one should deliver …

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 …