We present the design and implementation of a transparent and selective offload architecture, accelerating a mature software OpenFlow implementation (Open vSwitch) using a programmable network processor. Our design combines the flexibility offered by software OpenFlow implementations with the performance of specialised switch hardware. It is targeted at accelerating the emerging class of edge/g...

SDN paradigm has successfully manage to pave the way toward next-generation networking, but the research on SDN-based integrated satellite and terrestrial network has just started. SDNenabled management and deployment architecture of integrated satelliteterrestrial network eases the complexity of management of infrastructures and networks, improves the maintaining and deployment costs, achieves...

Software-Defined Networks (SDN), as newly proposed network architecture, has a great potential in optimizing network traffics. In SDN, the control plane is separated from the data plane. With the help of the centralized controller, we can gather information of the network in real time. In this work, we propose a practical two-stage approach for traffic engineering that takes advantages of SDN. ...

Software-Defined Networking currently appears to be a major evolution towards network programmability. In this paper, we first analyze the network management capabilities of OpenFlow in order to identify the main challenges that are raised for SDN management. We address current deficiencies of SDN management and suggest solutions that incur research directions to be carried out for the manageme...