A survey on software-defined networking

W Xia, Y Wen, CH Foh, D Niyato… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging mega-trends (eg, mobile, social, cloud, and big data) in information and
communication technologies (ICT) are commanding new challenges to future Internet, for …

A survey and a layered taxonomy of software-defined networking

Y Jarraya, T Madi, M Debbabi - IEEE communications surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) has recently gained unprecedented attention from
industry and research communities, and it seems unlikely that this will be attenuated in the …

[PDF][PDF] 软件定义网络(SDN) 研究进展

张朝昆, 崔勇, 唐翯祎, 吴建平 - 软件学报, 2014 - jos.org.cn
网络抽象促使软件定义网络(software-defined networking, 简称SDN) 的产生. SDN
将数据平面与控制平面解耦合, 简化了网络管理. 首先从SDN 诞生发展的背景入手, 梳理了SDN …

The road to SDN: an intellectual history of programmable networks

N Feamster, J Rexford, E Zegura - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an exciting technology that enables innovation in
how we design and manage networks. Although this technology seems to have appeared …

The controller placement problem

B Heller, R Sherwood, N McKeown - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Network architectures such as Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) move the control logic off
packet processing devices and onto external controllers. These network architectures with …

[PDF][PDF] Hedera: dynamic flow scheduling for data center networks.

M Al-Fares, S Radhakrishnan, B Raghavan, N Huang… - Nsdi, 2010 - usenix.org
Today's data centers offer tremendous aggregate bandwidth to clusters of tens of thousands
of machines. However, because of limited port densities in even the highest-end switches …

[PDF][PDF] Hyperflow: A distributed control plane for openflow

A Tootoonchian, Y Ganjali - Proceedings of the 2010 internet network …, 2010 - usenix.org
OpenFlow assumes a logically centralized controller, which ideally can be physically
distributed. However, current deployments rely on a single controller which has major …

On Controller Performance in {Software-Defined} Networks

A Tootoonchian, S Gorbunov, Y Ganjali… - 2nd USENIX Workshop …, 2012 - usenix.org
Little is known about the practical performance implications of Software-Defined Networking
(SDN). And while recent work has attempted to address perceived limitations of SDN, they …

Managing data transfers in computer clusters with orchestra

M Chowdhury, M Zaharia, J Ma, MI Jordan… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Cluster computing applications like MapReduce and Dryad transfer massive amounts of
data between their computation stages. These transfers can have a significant impact on job …

Scalable flow-based networking with DIFANE

M Yu, J Rexford, MJ Freedman, J Wang - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Ideally, enterprise administrators could specify fine-grain policies that drive how the
underlying switches forward, drop, and measure traffic. However, existing techniques for …