The road to BOFUSS: The basic OpenFlow userspace software switch

EL Fernandes, E Rojas, J Alvarez-Horcajo… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Software switches are pivotal in the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm,
particularly in the early phases of development, deployment and testing. Currently, the most …

Arbitrary packet matching in OpenFlow

S Jouet, R Cziva, DP Pezaros - 2015 IEEE 16th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
OpenFlow has emerged as the de facto control protocol to implement Software-Defined
Networking (SDN). In its current form, the protocol specifies a set of fields on which it …

[PDF][PDF] OpenFlow 1.3 software switch

EL Fernandes, CE Rothenberg - Salao de Ferramentas do …, 2014 - dca.fee.unicamp.br
OpenFlow is a new and fast evolving technology that enables the implementation of
Software Defined Networks. This papers describes a tool designed for rapid and …

[PDF][PDF] Small-packet flows in software defined networks: Traffic profile optimization

J Saldana, F Pascual, JA Castell, J Fernandez-Navajas… - 2015 - zaguan.unizar.es
This paper proposes a method for optimizing bandwidth usage in Software Defined
Networks (SDNs) based on OpenFlow. Flows of small packets presenting a high overhead …

Optimization of low-efficiency traffic in OpenFlow Software Defined Networks

J Saldana, F Pascual, D de Hoz… - … of Computer and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a method for optimizing bandwidth usage in Software Defined
Networks (SDNs) based on OpenFlow. Flows of small packets presenting a high overhead …

PindSwitch: A SDN-based protocol-independent autonomic flow processing platform

T Zhou, G Xiangyang, Y Hu, X Que… - 2013 IEEE Globecom …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has already gained enormous momentum in the
industry. Its innovative architecture that separates the control and forwarding planes allows …

A generic interface for Open vSwitch

DT Bui, K Aberkane - 2016 IEEE NetSoft Conference and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe a new generic interface to a software-defined switch allowing the
controller to inform the switch of the existence of an external function. Through the same …

A Collaborated IPv6-Packets Matching Mechanism Base on Flow Label in OpenFlow

W Sun, H Wei, Z Ji, Q Zhang, C Lin - … 2015, Wuhan, November 10-11, 2015 …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Software Defined Networks (SDN), the separation of a network device's control and
data planes, do not need to rely on the underlying network equipment (routers, switches …

Methods for dynamically binding header field identifiers in a network control protocol

TB Mack-Crane - US Patent 9,674,315, 2017 - Google Patents
Header field identifiers can be dynamically bound to header fields in software defined
networks via signaling between software defined network (SDN) controllers and switches …