A survey of software-defined networking: Past, present, and future of programmable networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1617-1634

  Nunes, Bruno Astuto A ^a   Mendonca, Marc ^b   Nguyen, Xuan Nam ^a   Obraczka, Katia ^b   Turletti, Thierry ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

control plane; data plane; programmable networks; Software Defined Networking; survey; virtualization

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

CONTROL PLANES; DATA PLANES; PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84906785658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2014.012214.00180     Document Type: Article

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