Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a recently evolving networking architecture
that focuses on the separation of control and data planes. Unlike traditional switches, SDN …

Abstract The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm establishes a typical three-
plane architecture (ie, Data, Control, and Application planes) that facilitates the deployment …

In spite of the increasing efforts in designing preventive security measures, new attack types
arise on a regular basis. The reasons for these include: programming errors, design flaws …

Management is an essential process to ensure the proper operation of computer networks.
There are a lot of proposals to manage software-defined networks (SDN) from their …

Recently, the giants of the Internet are adopting every day more and more the benefits of
virtualization within the data center. This technology reduces significantly power …

In network management, significant research efforts have been carried out to automate and
facilitate the tasks conducted by network administrators. However, so far, none of these …

Ensuring proper operation of networks based on the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is
essential. Many proposals exist for managing SDN. However, they present low automation …

A convergent service is defined as a service that exploits the convergence of communication
networks and at the same time takes advantage of features of the Web. Nowadays, building …

Social media has a very important contribution to human lives today. Through social media
platforms people can share their information, ideas, knowledge, and activities with …

The work performed by network administrators to address sudden, dynamic, heterogeneous,
and time specific situations that happen in the network management domain is complex. In …