Research Area:  Software Defined Networks

Abstract:

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been proposed to solve ossifications of Internet. The main motivation of SDN is to separate the control plane and data plane, enabling a centralized control. In this way, the network infrastructure becomes an open and standardized resource. Hence, it can be managed and utilized in a more efficient way. The controller is the key infrastructure in the SDN and provides programming interfaces to the entire network. Then, various applications can be written to perform management tasks and offer new functionalities on the controller. In this survey, we present many essential research issues about the controller, and especially focus on the control architecture, performance, scalability, placement, interface and security. The aim of this paper is to provide an up-to-date view to the SDN controller.

Keywords:  
Control plane
software defined networks

Author(s) Name:  Junjie Xie, Deke Guo, Zhiyao Hu, Ting Qu, Pin Lv

Publisher name:  Elsevier

DOI:  10.1016/j.comcom.2015.06.004

Volume Information:  Volume 67, 1 August 2015, Pages 1-10

Paper Link:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140366415002200