B4: experience with a globally-deployed software defined wan

By Sushant Jain, Alok Kumar, Subhasree Mandal, J. Ong, L. Poutievski, Arjun Singh, S. Venkata, Jim Wanderer, Junlan Zhou, Min Zhu and 4 more. Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2013

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Advanced study of SDN/OpenFlow controllers (2013, background): “Understanding all benefits Google and Microsoft recently switched to SDN in their data centers [2, 3].”
Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, methodology): “For instance, Google [23] has adopted SDN in multiple stages over several years for their network management and control.”
DISCO: Distributed multi-domain SDN controllers (2013, background): “Recently, Google has presented their experience with B4 [1], a global SDN deployment interconnecting their datacenters.”
Distributed SDN Control: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges (2018, background): “4) B4 and SWAN: Google’s B4 [75] network leverages the logical centralization enabled by the SDN paradigm to deploy centralized TE in coexistence with the standard shortest-path routing for the purpose of increasing the utilization of the inter-data-center links (near 100”
The Road to SDN (2013, background): “24 Early commercial successes, such as Google’s wide-area traffic-management system 44 and Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform, 54 have garnered significant industry attention.”
Sdn Security: A Survey (2013, background): “The advantages of SDN in various scenarios (e.g. the enterprise, the datacenter etc.) and across various back-bone networks have already been proven e.g. Google B4 [1].”
Mininet-WiFi: Emulating software-defined wireless networks (2015, neutral): “, BSN Labs, Google B4 [4]).”
A Survey and a Layered Taxonomy of Software-Defined Networking (2014, methodology): “Several important organizations such as Google [101] and VMware are running SDN networks and several experimental testbeds are running and testing OpenFlow networks worldwide, including NDDI [164], OFELIA [165], FIBRE [166], JGN-X [167] and GENI [168].”
A Survey on Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Design Requirements (2017, methodology): “SDN has also been used to build private wide-area networks (WAN) connecting data centres successfully, e.g. B4 by Google [48].”
Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space (2018, background): “In terrestrial networks, centralized load-dependent routing schemes such as B4[9] and LDR[7] can pro-actively route so as to achieve low latency without causing congestion.”
Osmotic Computing: A New Paradigm for Edge/Cloud Integration (2016, methodology): “Function Virtualization (NFV)[14], offer useful solutions for supporting in-network/in-transit processing of data (between Edge/Data Centre) and providing network management abstraction independent of the underlying technology.”
Software Defined Networking Architecture, Security and Energy Efficiency: A Survey (2017, background): “This attracted companies like Google to incorporate SDN in their networks [64].”