A Survey of Software-Defined Networking: Past, Present, and Future of Programmable Networks

By Bruno Astuto Arouche Nunes, Marc Mendonca, Xuan Nam Nguyen, Katia Obraczka, Thierry Turletti. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2014

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Citations in the corpus

• 5G-Enabled Tactile Internet (2016, background): “The recent trends of network function virtualization (NFV) (providing abstraction [31]) and software defined networking (SDN) (providing flexibility [32]) are critical in shap-”
• Large Language Model (LLM) for Telecommunications: A Comprehensive Survey on Principles, Key Techniques, and Opportunities (2024, background): “Over the past ten years, both academic institutions and the commercial sector have embraced the concept of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) [117] as a means to streamline network management, marking a shift away from the older, more rigid networking models.”
• A Survey on Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Design Requirements (2017, background): “Large networks also become heterogeneous due to the use of different proprietary protocols, which fundamentally means they consist of different network islands that only cooperate at lower levels of communication [13], [33], [36].”
• AmoebaNet: An SDN-enabled network service for big data science (2018, neutral): “SDN is a network architecture that disentangles the control plane from data forwarding, thus allowing the network control to be directly programmable (Shenker et al., 2011; McKeown, 2009; Kreutz et al., 2015; Nunes et al., 2014).”
• Software defined networking: State of the art and research challenges (2014, result): “Compared to recent surveys [5, 6], this paper tackles most of the SDN challenges with their causes and existing solutions in a comprehensive and detailed manner.”
• Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) Networks: The IEEE TSN and IETF DetNet Standards and Related 5G ULL Research (2018, methodology): “, based on a design similar to software defined networking (SDN) [81], [82], with message”
• Review of Internet of Things (IoT) in Electric Power and Energy Systems (2018, background): “A promising solution to manage the growing network complexity is software-defined networking (SDN) [152], [153].”
• A Survey on Millimeter-Wave Beamforming Enabled UAV Communications and Networking (2021, background): “can support the UAVs to improve the communication protocols to meet different communication requirements [283]–[285].”
• How Can Edge Computing Benefit From Software-Defined Networking: A Survey, Use Cases, and Future Directions (2017, background): “Moreover, there are surveys on SDN [26]–[30], Software Defined Wireless Networks (SDWN) [31], [32] and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) [33], [34] which are the complementary technologies for improving the operations of edge servers.”
• Vehicular Edge Computing and Networking: A Survey (2019, background): “The other network architecture by combining SDN with MEC is introduced in [116] for 5G-enabled Software-Defined Vehicular Networks (5G-SDVNs).”
• Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “proposed for network management in pure SDN networks, see [50], [207]–[209].”
• A survey on service function chaining (2016, background): “Since NFV deals with implementing the network services as software, SDN plays an important role in the orchestration of NFV [58, 65, 110].”
• Unsupervised Machine Learning for Networking: Techniques, Applications and Research Challenges (2017, background): “SDN is applicable in a wide variety of areas ranging from enterprise networks, data centers, infrastructure based wireless access networks, optical networks to home and small businesses, each providing many future research opportunities [285].”
• Realizing the Tactile Internet: Haptic Communications over Next Generation 5G Cellular Networks (2015, background): “Interested readers are referred to [12], [13] and the refere nc s therein.”
• Distributed SDN Control: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges (2018, background): “In particular, surveys published in IEEE CST over the last few years elaborated on various topics within the SDN scope such as the concept, benefits and historical roots [9, 10], the architecture elements and”
• A Survey of Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Software Defined Networking (SDN): Research Issues and Challenges (2019, background): “For a more insightful discussion on SDN, please refer to [64]–[71].”