Resilience support in software-defined networking: A survey

Computer Networks

Volumn 92, Issue , 2015, Pages 189-207

  Da Silva, Anderson Santos ^a   Smith, Paul ^b   Mauthe, Andreas ^c   Schaeffer Filho, Alberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Network challenges; Network resilience; OpenFlow; Software defined networking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISASTERS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

COMPUTER NETWORKING; NETWORK OPERATIONS; NETWORK RESILIENCE; OPENFLOW; RESILIENCE MECHANISM; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 84945535465     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2015.09.012     Document Type: Article

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