A survey on software-defined network and openflow: From concept to implementation

F Hu, Q Hao, K Bao - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined network (SDN) has become one of the most important architectures for the
management of largescale complex networks, which may require repolicing or …

Opportunities and research challenges of hybrid software defined networks

S Vissicchio, L Vanbever, O Bonaventure - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Software Defined Networking (SDN) promises to ease design, operation and management
of communication networks. However, SDN comes with its own set of challenges, including …

The design and implementation of open {vSwitch}

B Pfaff, J Pettit, T Koponen, E Jackson, A Zhou… - … USENIX symposium on …, 2015 - usenix.org
We describe the design and implementation of Open vSwitch, a multi-layer, open source
virtual switch for all major hypervisor platforms. Open vSwitch was designed de novo for …

Software-defined networking using OpenFlow: Protocols, applications and architectural design choices

W Braun, M Menth - Future Internet, 2014 - mdpi.com
We explain the notion of software-defined networking (SDN), whose southbound interface
may be implemented by the OpenFlow protocol. We describe the operation of OpenFlow …

Cacheflow: Dependency-aware rule-caching for software-defined networks

N Katta, O Alipourfard, J Rexford, D Walker - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows control applications to install fine-grained
forwarding policies in the underlying switches. While Ternary Content Addressable Memory …

Blink: Fast connectivity recovery entirely in the data plane

T Holterbach, EC Molero, M Apostolaki… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2019 - usenix.org
In this paper, we explore new possibilities, created by programmable switches, for fast
rerouting upon signals triggered by Internet traffic disruptions. We present Blink, a data …

Incremental consistent updates

NP Katta, J Rexford, D Walker - … of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
A consistent update installs a new packet-forwarding policy across the switches of a
software-defined network in place of an old policy. While doing so, such an update …

Infinite cacheflow in software-defined networks

N Katta, O Alipourfard, J Rexford, D Walker - Proceedings of the third …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables fine-grained policies for firewalls, load
balancers, routers, traffic monitoring, and other functionality. While Ternary Content …

Revisiting routing control platforms with the eyes and muscles of software-defined networking

CE Rothenberg, MR Nascimento… - Proceedings of the first …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Prior work on centralized Routing Control Platform (RCP) has shown many benefits in
flexible routing, enhanced security, and ISP connectivity management tasks. In this paper …

An {Industrial-Scale} Software Defined Internet Exchange Point

A Gupta, R MacDavid, R Birkner, M Canini… - … USENIX symposium on …, 2016 - usenix.org
Software-Defined Internet Exchange Points (SDXes) promise to significantly increase the
flexibility and function of interdomain traffic delivery on the Internet. Unfortunately, current …