A comprehensive survey of service function chain provisioning approaches in SDN and NFV architecture

K Kaur, V Mangat, K Kumar - Computer Science Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged as an innovative network
architecture paradigm that uses IT virtualization technology to abstract the network node …

DevoFlow: Scaling flow management for high-performance networks

AR Curtis, JC Mogul, J Tourrilhes… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
OpenFlow is a great concept, but its original design imposes excessive overheads. It can
simplify network and traffic management in enterprise and data center environments …

Mahout: Low-overhead datacenter traffic management using end-host-based elephant detection

AR Curtis, W Kim, P Yalagandula - 2011 Proceedings IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Datacenters need high-bandwidth interconnection fabrics. Several researchers have
proposed highly-redundant topologies with multiple paths between pairs of end hosts for …

Optimal positioning of active and passive monitoring devices

C Chaudet, E Fleury, IG Lassous, H Rivano… - Proceedings of the 2005 …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
Network measurement is essential for assessing performance issues, identifying and
locating problems. Two common strategies are the passive approach that attaches specific …

Offline/realtime traffic classification using semi-supervised learning

J Erman, A Mahanti, M Arlitt, I Cohen… - Performance …, 2007 - Elsevier
Identifying and categorizing network traffic by application type is challenging because of the
continued evolution of applications, especially of those with a desire to be undetectable. The …

Methods of forwarding data packets using transient tables and related load balancers

JS Ganesh, M Arisoylu, P Anand… - US Patent 9,621,642, 2017 - Google Patents
Methods may be provided to forward data packets to a plurality of servers with each server
being identified by a respective server identification (ID). A non-initial data packet of a data …

Traffic aware placement of interdependent NFV middleboxes

W Ma, O Sandoval, J Beltran, D Pan… - IEEE INFOCOM 2017 …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization enables flexible implementation of network functions, or
middleboxes, as virtual machines running on standard servers. However, the flexibility also …

Methods of load balancing using primary and stand-by addresses and related load balancers and servers

P Anand, M Arisoylu, JS Ganesh… - US Patent 9,137,165, 2015 - Google Patents
H04L 12/803(2013.01)(57) ABSTRACT H04L 29/08(2006.01) A first data packet of a data
flow may be addressed to a HO4L 12/819(2013.01) primary address and include information …

Intelligently modeling, detecting, and scheduling elephant flows in software defined energy cloud: A survey

LX Liao, HC Chao, MY Chen - Journal of Parallel and Distributed …, 2020 - Elsevier
Elephant flows (elephants) refer to the sequences of packets that contribute only 10% of the
total volume but consume over 90% of the network bandwidth. They often cause network …

Devoflow: Cost-effective flow management for high performance enterprise networks

JC Mogul, J Tourrilhes, P Yalagandula… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The OpenFlow framework enables flow-level control over Ethernet switching, as well as
centralized visibility of the flows in the network. OpenFlow's coupling of these features …