Abstract Software Defined Network (SDN) has become one of the most preferred solutions
for the management of large-scale complex networks. The network policies in the large …

The conventional software running on network devices, such as switches and routers, is
typically vendor-supplied, proprietary and closed-source; as a result, it tends to contain …

Data center networks demand high-performance, robust, and practical data plane load
balancing protocols. Despite progress, existing work falls short of meeting these …

Innovative traffic engineering functions and services require disrupting routing and
forwarding mechanisms to be performed with low overhead over complex network …

Current service function chaining (SFC) solutions are cumbersome adaptations of classic
routing mechanisms, which lack flexibility and agility to cope with new dynamic services …

The current society is becoming increasingly interconnected and hyper-connected.
Communication networks are advancing, as well as logistics networks, or even networks for …

Abstract Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding (POF) is a groundbreaking technology that enables
a protocol-independent data plane for the future Software-Defined Networking (SDN) …

Source routing (SR) is a prominent alternative to table-based routing for reducing the
number of network states. However, traditional SR approaches, based on Port Switching …

We design and implement a novel network virtualization hypervisor (NVH), which leverages
source routing (SR) and provides network programmability based on the protocol-oblivious …

One great challenge of modern networks is how to select paths and react to highly variable
and demanding traffic patterns. In recent years, emerging networking languages and …