Current approaches to tackle the single point of failure in SDN entail a distributed operation
of SDN controller instances. Their state synchronization process is reliant on the assumption …

Building on our experience and other experiments, we perform a strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, and threats analysis of x86 platform trusted execution environments (TEEs) in …

Fog computing has emerged as a promising paradigm in overcoming the growing
challenges (eg, low latency, location awareness, and geographic distribution) arising from …

Cloud orchestration frameworks are commonly used to deploy and operate cloud
infrastructure. Their role spans both vertically (deployment on infrastructure, platform …

SDN brings new opportunities to alleviate the existing security deficiencies of traditional
networks. However, it also introduces new issues, a primary one being the vulnerabilities …

Future communication networks such as 5G are expected to support end-to-end delivery of
services for several vertical markets with diverging requirements. Network slicing is a key …

Abstract The evolution of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has so far been
predominantly geared towards defining and refining the abstractions on the forwarding and …

Advances in software virtualization and network processing lead to increasing network
softwarization. Software network elements running on commodity platforms replace or …

Operators use containers–enabled by operating system (OS) level virtualization–to deploy
virtual network functions (VNFs) that access the centralized network controller in software …

OpenFlow flow tables in Open vSwitch contain valuable information about installed flows,
priorities, packet actions and routing policies. Their importance is emphasized when …