A Survey on Software-Defined Network and OpenFlow: From Concept to Implementation

By Fei Hu, Qi Hao, Ke Bao. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2014

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/62920d0511da12988322403e1f6a98fa3c95aae4

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• Resource Slicing in Virtual Wireless Networks: A Survey (2016, background): “planes, moving the control plane from the network devices to a central location [9].”
• Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges (2015, background): “SDN [51] is currently attracting significant attention from both academia and industry as an important architecture for the management of large scale complex networks, which may require re-policing or re-configurations from time to time.”
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks in Cloud Computing Environments: A Survey, Some Research Issues, and Challenges (2016, background): “Such a decoupling of control and data plays a critical role in large-scale, high-speed computing system [8].”
• Software Defined Networking Architecture, Security and Energy Efficiency: A Survey (2017, methodology): “Although there are related survey papers [6], [7], [16], [26]–[29] which provide information about the SDN, more up to date activities of rapidly advancing research areas on SDN security and energy efficiency is to be brought to the research community.”
• Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “presented in [43], [71], [73], and [74].”
• Distributed SDN Control: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges (2018, background): “the design challenges [9, 10, 11, 12], the SDN programming languages [13], the virtualization of SDN networks using hypervisors [14], the security challenge in SDN [15], the fault management challenge in SDN [16] and the application of SDN in wireless networks [17].”
• Software-Defined Industrial Internet of Things in the Context of Industry 4.0 (2016, background): “traditional network firewalls, because the attackers are usually inside the firewall [25], [26], [32].”
• A Survey on Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Design Requirements (2017, methodology): “The OpenFlow protocol is flow based, thus each switch maintains a flow table (which can be altered dynamically by the controller), which consists of flow rules (entries) that determine the handling of packets [30], [38], [41].”
• Energy Efficiency Tradeoff Mechanism Towards Wireless Green Communication: A Survey (2016, background): “• Finally, cloud technology for flexibility of RAN deployments [112], [169], appropriate data sharing [170], infrastructure sharing [151] and green software [111], layered coding [171], software defined network [172], [173], smart grid approach [174], [175] are needed to be consider for energy-effic”
• Time-slotted software-defined Industrial Ethernet for real-time Quality of Service in Industry 4.0 (2019, positive): “Software-defined Networking (SDN) is a new network paradigm for improving network performance by augmenting network management, control and data handling capabilities [2, 7–9].”
• Security for 5G and Beyond (2019, background): “For example, the concepts of cloud computing [8], Software Defined Networking (SDN) [9], and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) [10] are considered to be the potential”
• How Can Edge Computing Benefit From Software-Defined Networking: A Survey, Use Cases, and Future Directions (2017, methodology): “As a result of the immense work on the standardization by ONF, SDN leads to a network environment which eliminates dependency on vendors [164].”
• A Survey on Millimeter-Wave Beamforming Enabled UAV Communications and Networking (2021, background): “, openflow [285]), which contain flow tables and protocols for communicating with controllers.”