A database approach to SDN control plane design

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 15-26

  Davie, Bruce ^a   Koponen, Teemu ^b   Pfaff, Ben ^a   Pettit, Justin ^a   Chanda, Anupam ^a   Casado, Martin ^a   Duda, Kenneth ^c   Gude, Natasha ^d   Padmanabhan, Amar ^c   Petty, Tim ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

^b Styra   (Canada)

^c Arista Networks Inc   (United States)

^d FACEBOOK   (United States)

Author keywords

databases; interoperability; protocol design; protocols; Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; INTEROPERABILITY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONSISTENCY MODEL; CONTROL INFORMATION; DATABASE APPROACHES; GENERIC DATABASE; HARDWARE DIVERSITY; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; PROTOCOL DESIGN; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN);

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 85010825622     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/3041027.3041030     Document Type: Article

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