Software-Defined Networking: A survey

Computer Networks

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-95

  Farhady, Hamid ^a   Lee, Hyunyong ^a   Nakao, Akihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Control and data planes; OpenFlow; Programmable networks; Software Defined Networking

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

CONTROL PLANES; DATA PLANES; OPENFLOW; PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN);

SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

EID: 84924217392     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2015.02.014     Document Type: Short Survey

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