Tolerating SDN application failures with LegoSDN

Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan ^a   Benson, Theophilus ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault Tolerance; Software Defined Networking

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CONTROLLERS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

APPLICATION FAILURE; BLACK HOLES; BYZANTINE FAILURES; CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURES; NETWORK AVAILABILITY;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 84914689523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2670518.2673880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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