FlowVisor: A Network Virtualization Layer

By Rob Sherwood, Glen Gibb, Kok-Kiong Yap, Guido Appenzeller, Martín Casado, Nick McKeown, G. Parulkar. 2009

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Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “Flowvisor [338] transforms one given physical network into multiple virtual network slices, whereby each user can independently operate its own network slice.”
SecondNet: a data center network virtualization architecture with bandwidth guarantees (2010, background): “Network virtualization [30, 17] has been proposed as a way to allow multiple network architectures to run on a shared infrastructure.”
Software Defined Optical Networks (SDONs): A Comprehensive Survey (2015, background): “Network hypervisors [78], [79] are the network elements that abstract the physical network infrastructure (including net-”
A Survey on Emerging SDN and NFV Security Mechanisms for IoT Systems (2019, methodology): “In [117], an SDN-based solution is introduced to deploy multiple logical networks for different tenants.”
Software Defined Networking Architecture, Security and Energy Efficiency: A Survey (2017, background): “as a switch virtualization scheme that establishes communication between virtual layer and data plane [53].”
Wireless Network Virtualization: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges (2015, background): “Both [98] and [76] provide architecture level solutions on LTE virtualization by using FlowVisor [73], while [76] focuses on the virtualizing of eNodeB, [98] studies packet-processing of the whole network.”
Sdn Security: A Survey (2013, background): “Without a signi ﬁ cant increase in focus on security, it will not be possible for SDN to support the evolving capability associated with, for example, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) [3].”
Software-defined networking (SDN): a survey (2016, background): “Several works have been proposed to mitigate the scalability issue in the control plane, and few researches are dealing with the data plane [44 – 46].”
Security in Software Defined Networks: A Survey (2015, unknown): “Flow-Visor[131]isoneexampleofhypervisorsthatusesOpenFlow and sits between software controllers and hardware switches to ﬁlter events to the controller and mask messages to switches.”
Towards secure and dependable software-defined networks (2013, methodology): “, by using OpenFlow-based slicing techniques [15]) allowing data leakage while the normal production traffic flows.”
Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking (2015, methodology): “design [9] and to improve the performance of the virtualization layer by implementing virtualization functions as switch extensions.”
A Survey on Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Design Requirements (2017, methodology): “They further highlight the use of FlowVisor [158], [159] for controller scalability purposes.”
FlowChecker: configuration analysis and verification of federated openflow infrastructures (2010, methodology): “FlowVisor works as an OpenFlow proxy between OpenFlow switches and OpenFlow controllers [18], as shown in Figure 2.”
HyperFlow: A Distributed Control Plane for OpenFlow (2010, background): “The only similar design we are aware of is FlowVisor [8] which attacks a slightly different problem.”