The workshop on Distributed Software-Defined Networking, DSDN, took place in Paris, France, on the 15th of July, just before the 33rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. The workshop intended to be a forum to discuss new algorithmic and distributed computing challenges offered by the emerging field of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). The workshop consisted of invited and pee...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a promising direction for next-generation network design. Due to its clean-slate and highly flexible design, it is believed to be the foundational principle for designing network architectures and improving their flexibility, resilience, reliability, and security. As the technology matures, research in both industry and academia has designed a co...

The demand for flexible network management has been growing significantly over the last several decades, which comes with a series of other related demands in network virtualization, stringent security, tenant isolation in cloud, and high performance and reliability for broadband access. To meet these demands from both users and enterprises, numerous networking protocols had been designed and d...

Programmable and Scalable Software-Defined Networking Controllers Andreas Richard Voellmy 2014 A major recent development in computer networking is the notion of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which allows a network to customize its behaviors through centralized policies at a conceptually centralized network controller. The SDN architecture replaces closed, vertically-integrated, and fixed-...

Software Defined Networks are intended to be less complex, more flexible, and free of vendor-lock-ins. Therefore the Software Defined Networking (SDN) instantiation OpenFlow has been designed according to these properties. The efforts are expected to result in lower expenditure and operational costs. To reach these objectives, mechanisms of classical networks that provide established functional...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has drawn increasing attention from both industry and academia, owing to its premise to simplify the management and control over large networks. While the SDN technology was initially deployed within datacenters, there are currently early deployments of SDN in Wide-Area Networks; SDN is further envisioned to be deployed in the near future within fixed and mobil...

Network services are an important component of the Internet, which are used to expand network functions for third-party developers. Network function virtualization (NFV) can improve the speed and flexibility of network service deployment. However, with the evolution of the network, network service layout may become inefficient. Regarding this problem, this paper proposes a service chain migrati...

Operating unprotected network links for international collaboration between research and education communities, subject to a high-availability production service requirement, is challenging. Provisioning circuits, maintaining a loop-free network topology, and configuring multi-path redundancy to provide high availability are complex processes, which involve extensive coordination between, and m...

POX is a Python based open source OpenFlow/Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controller. POX is used for faster development and prototyping of new network applications. POX controller comes pre installed with the mininet virtual machine. Using POX controller you can turn dumb openflow devices into hub, switch, load balancer, firewall devices. The POX controller allows easy way to run OpenFlow/S...

Software-defined networking (SDN) provides a means of configuring the packet-forwarding behavior of a network from a logically-centralized controller. Expressive, high-level languages have emerged for expressing data-plane configurations, and new tools allow for verifying packet reachability properties in real time. But SDN largely ignores quality of service (QoS) primitives, such as queues, qu...