The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

Software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a new network paradigm that promises
control/data plane separation and centralized network control. While these features simplify …

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and cloud automation enable a large number of diverse
parties (network operators, application admins, tenants/end-users) and control programs …

Software-defined networking (SDN) offers greater flexibility than traditional distributed
architectures, at the risk of the controller being a single point-of-failure. Unfortunately …

Programmable data planes, PDPs, enable an unprecedented level of flexibility and have
emerged as a promising alternative to existing data planes. Despite the rapid development …

Network operators often need to adapt the configuration of a network in order to comply with
changing routing policies. Evolving existing configurations, however, is a complex task as …

As Internet video goes mainstream, we see increasing user expectations for higher video
quality and new global policy requirements for content providers. Inspired by the case for …

Existing SDNs rely on a collection of intricate, mutually-dependent mechanisms to
implement a logically centralized control plane. These cyclical dependencies and lack of …

Network management facilitates a healthy and sustainable network. However, its practice is
not well understood outside the network engineering community. In this paper, we present …

To keep pace with the tremendous bandwidth growth in cloud networking, web-scale
providers, such as Microsoft, have been quick to adopt elastic features of modern optical …