The controller placement problem

By Brandon Heller, Rob Sherwood, Nick McKeown. HotSDN '12, 2012

671 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/058b213e3b407f11d0260f67d703bffdc7042335

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Citations in the corpus

Distributed SDN Control: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges (2018, background): “placement of controllers should be further investigated and treated as an optimization problem that depends on specific performance metrics [48].”
Software Defined Networking (2019, background): “5 demonstrates the proposed implementation redundancy in a simplified topology of the company [12].”
A Survey of Fog Computing: Concepts, Applications and Issues (2015, background): “There are other interesting questions like how to deal with node churn, updating, predicting and maintaining the connectivity graph of network in different granularity; how to cooperate different controllers such as constantly connected controller (at the edge infrastructures) or intermittently conn”
Software defined networking: State of the art and research challenges (2014, positive): “The minimization was based on an optimization model generated on the basis of the minimum k -median problem [73].”
Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey (2014, background): “[129] show how a single controller is usually enough to keep an acceptable latency.”
Security in Software Defined Networks: A Survey (2015, neutral): “The controller placement problem is presented in [60], where it is shown that the number of controllers and topological locations of controllers are two key challenges for network scalability and resilience in SDN.”
A Survey on Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Design Requirements (2017, background): “Heller et al. [184] thoroughly evaluated the controller placement problem.”
Dynamic Controller Provisioning in Software Defined Networks (2013, background): “The problem regarding how many controllers to place and where to place them in the network was first studied by Heller et al. [8].”
DISCO: Distributed multi-domain SDN controllers (2013, methodology): “In addition, [19] analyzes the trade-off between centralized and distributed control states in SDN, while [20] proposes a method to optimally place a single controller in an SDN network.”
Towards secure and dependable software-defined networks (2013, background): “Other advantages include increasing control plane throughput (several controllers could be used for load balancing) and reducing control delay [27] by choosing the quickest-responding controller.”
A Survey and a Layered Taxonomy of Software-Defined Networking (2014, background): “In [90], the problems of deciding on the number of controllers to use and their placement within the topology are discussed.”
A Survey of Software-Defined Networking: Past, Present, and Future of Programmable Networks (2014, background): “In [54], the controller placement problem is discussed in terms of the number of controllers needed and where to place them in the network.”
Heuristic Approaches to the Controller Placement Problem in Large Scale SDN Networks (2015, methodology): “The Internet2 OS3E network is used as example topology and the best placement with respect to maximum node to controller latency for k=5 controllers as shown in the work of Heller et al. [5] acts as reference.”
On the Capacitated Controller Placement Problem in Software Defined Networks (2014, methodology): “To differentiate the well-known Controller Placement Problem (CPP) named in [1], we name the new problem as the Capacitated Controller Placement Problem (CCPP).”