SDN is an emerging paradigm currently evidenced as a new driving force in the general
area of computer networks. Many investigations have been carried out in the last few years …

Traffic Monitoring assists in achieving network stability by observing and quantifying its
behavior. A proper traffic monitoring solution requires the accurate and timely collection of …

SDNs are developed networks that focus on the separation of control aircraft and data. This
new model is designed to simplify network management and enable research innovations. It …

Abstract The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm establishes a typical three-
plane architecture (ie, Data, Control, and Application planes) that facilitates the deployment …

In network virtualization environments (NVEs), the physical infrastructure is shared among
different users (or service providers) who create multiple virtual networks (VNs). As part of …

Management is an essential process to ensure the proper operation of computer networks.
There are a lot of proposals to manage software-defined networks (SDN) from their …

In network management, significant research efforts have been carried out to automate and
facilitate the tasks conducted by network administrators. However, so far, none of these …

A convergent service is defined as a service that exploits the convergence of communication
networks and at the same time takes advantage of features of the Web. Nowadays, building …