Software-defined Networking (SDN) marked the beginning of a new era in the field of
networking by decoupling the control and forwarding processes through the OpenFlow …

Programmable data planes allow users to define their own data plane algorithms for network
devices including appropriate data plane application programming interfaces (APIs) which …

Communication networks require high availability to provide reliable services to users. One
of techniques maintaining high availability of communication networks is fast failure recovery …

In software-defined networks, forwarding entries on switches are configured by a controller.
In case of an unreachable next-hop, traffic is dropped until forwarding entries are updated …

In recent years, the network slicing technology has attracted much attention because it can
provide virtual networks called slices according to service requirements. This paper …