NOSIX: A lightweight portability layer for the SDN OS

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 28-35

  Yu, Minlan ^a   Raju, Muruganantham ^a   Wundsam, Andreas ^b  

^a Dept of Physics   (United States)

^b Big Switch Networks ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Openflow; Portability; Software defined networks; Switch diversity

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; SEMANTICS;

FEATURE SETS; FLOW TABLES; LIGHTWEIGHT PORTABILITY; OPENFLOW; PACKET PROCESSING; RENDEZVOUS POINT; RULE SET; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS;

SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

EID: 84899584070     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2602204.2602209     Document Type: Review

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