Are we ready for SDN? Implementation challenges for software-defined networks

By Sakir Sezer, Sandra Scott-Hayward, P. Chouhan, B. Fraser, D. Lake, J. Finnegan, Niel Viljoen, Marc Miller, Navneet Rao. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2013

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Software Defined Networking Architecture, Security and Energy Efficiency: A Survey (2017, background): “rules without increasing the cost and degrading the overall network performance, network security and energy consumption in SDN [6], [185].”
Wireless Network Virtualization: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges (2015, background): “Similar to wired network virtualization, in which physical infrastructure owned by one or more providers can be shared among multiple service providers, wireless network virtualization needs the physical wireless infrastructure and radio resources to be abstracted and isolated to a number of…”
Networking and Communications in Autonomous Driving: A Survey (2019, background): “ciency of resources [172], and its programmability makes the network more flexible [173].”
A survey: Control plane scalability issues and approaches in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) (2017, background): “[1] state that one of the main challenges in SDN is the scalability issue, which especially needs more attention by researchers.”
Security in Software Defined Networks: A Survey (2015, positive): “As a result, logically the SDN architecture supports highly reactive security monitoring, analysis and response systems to facilitate network forensics, security policy alteration and security service insertion [51].”
A Survey and a Layered Taxonomy of Software-Defined Networking (2014, background): “few papers surveying specifc aspects of SDN [15]–[17].”
Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “According to studies on cloud platforms [14], [190], the strict separation of the control and data planes does not necessarily deliver the best solution for flexible and scalable networking.”
A Survey of Security in Software Defined Networks (2016, background): “A similar DoS attack could be performed at the infrastructure level with flooding of the flow table for which limited memory resources are available [43].”
Sdn Security: A Survey (2013, background): “A number of these challenges have been presented in [2].”
How Can Edge Computing Benefit From Software-Defined Networking: A Survey, Use Cases, and Future Directions (2017, background): “near future to support the extensions of OpenFlow and other needs such as preventing the overload on the switch in the case of an attack [216].”
Survey on SDN based network intrusion detection system using machine learning approaches (2018, background): “The centralized controller provides an abstract network view, defining tasks by APIs and greater programmability of the network [9].”
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks in Cloud Computing Environments: A Survey, Some Research Issues, and Challenges (2016, background): “peer-to-peer controller infrastructure may share the communication burden of the controller [11].”
A survey on service function chaining (2016, background): “There have been recent studies towards the security in cloud and virtualized environments [113-115].”
What Will 5G Be? (2014, background): “…main beneﬁts of this architecture are the logical decoupling of the network intelligence to separate software-based controllers, exposing the network capabilities through an application program interface, and enabling the application to request and manipulate services provided by the network [135].”
Overview of 5G Security Challenges and Solutions (2018, background): “Therefore, the SDN architecture supports highly reactive and proactive security monitoring, traffic analysis and response systems to facilitate network forensics, the alteration of security policies and security service insertion [13].”