SDN changes the networking vision with an impressive thought of segregating the
networking control from the data management hardware and brings new functionalities such …

Computer networks have become a critical infrastructure. In fact, networks should not only
meet strict requirements in terms of correctness, availability, and performance but they …

Programming the network to add, remove, and modify functions has been a longstanding
goal in our community. Unfortunately, in today's programmable networks, the velocity of …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow are actively being standardized
and deployed. These deployments rely on switches that come from various vendors and …

In networks, availability is of paramount importance. As link failures are disruptive, modern
networks in turn provide Fast ReRoute (FRR) mechanisms to rapidly restore connectivity …

Network failures are common in wide area networks (WANs). Failure recovery in a software-
defined WAN takes minutes or longer, as the controller needs to calculate a new traffic …

In networks today, the data plane handles forwarding---sending a packet to the next device
in the path---and the control plane handles routing---deciding the path of the packet in the …

Future cellular networks will be dense and require key traffic management technologies for
fine-grained network control. The problem gets more complicated in the presence of different …

We have witnessed a rapid growth of programmable switch applications, ranging from
monitoring to security and offloading. Meanwhile, to safeguard the diverse network …

This book reviews the concept of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) by studying the SDN
architecture. It provides a detailed analysis of state-of-the-art distributed SDN controller …