A survey and a layered taxonomy of software-defined networking

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1955-1980

  Jarraya, Yosr ^a   Madi, Taous ^a   Debbabi, Mourad ^a  

^a Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

controller; flow; management; OpenFlow; programmable networks; Software defined networking; virtualization

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; MANAGEMENT; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS;

FLOW; OPENFLOW; PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 84913553955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2320094     Document Type: Review

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