Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Virtual switches, like Open vSwitch, have emerged as an important part of cloud networking
architectures. They connect interfaces of virtual machines and establish the connection to …

Virtual switches, like Open vSwitch, have emerged as an important part of today's data
centers. They connect interfaces of virtual machines and provide an uplink to the physical …

The development was carried out using the Qt5. 2 integrated development environment,
which uses the programming language C++. The main advantage of this environment is that …

New paradigms in networking industry, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), require the hypervisors to enable the execution of …

Current OpenFlow specification is unable to set the service rate of the queues inside
OpenFlow devices. This lack does not allow to apply most algorithms for the satisfaction of …

Today's data centers are designed to scale up to respond to the offered workload in a rapid,
efficient, and effective manner, and at the same time, they must satisfy the Service Level …

Due to grown capabilities of commodity hardware for packet processing and the high
flexibility of software, the use of those systems as alternatives to expensive dedicated …

For long time, high-speed packet processing has been reserved for specialized hardware
devices since software based solutions were not able to achieve the required performance …

The concept of network functions virtualization (NFV) has been embodied in commercial
networks over the past years. Software-based virtual network functions have forwarding …