Can the Production Network Be the Testbed?

By Rob Sherwood, Glen Gibb, Kok-Kiong Yap, Guido Appenzeller, Martín Casado, Nick McKeown, G. Parulkar. USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2010

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• SoftCell: scalable and flexible cellular core network architecture (2013, methodology): “Another solution is to use network virtualization like FlowVisor [32].”
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• Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking (2015, background): “This abstraction is sometimes referred to as an n-to-1 mapping or a many-to-one mapping in that the abstraction involves mappings from multiple vSDN switches to one physical SDN switch [49], [128].”
• Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey (2013, background): “Currently, OpenFlow [60] and its virtualization layer FlowVisor [61] are the most prominently proposed technologies for achieving programmability in data center networks.”
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• The controller placement problem (2012, background): “Since FlowVisor's only consistent state is its configuration , multiple instances might be used to scale FlowVisor.”
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• Toward Software-Defined Cellular Networks (2012, background): “Virtualization: Today’s SDN virtualization solutions like FlowVisor [5] can share a single switch data plane among multiple virtual networks.”
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• A security enforcement kernel for OpenFlow networks (2012, background): “FlowVisor is a platform-independent OF controller that uses network slicing to separate logical network planes, allowing multiple researchers to run experiments safely and independently in the same production OpenFlow network [22].”
• A Survey of Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Software Defined Networking (SDN): Research Issues and Challenges (2019, methodology): “FlowVisor [183] and OpenVirteX [184] are two widely-used network hypervisors.”