A dynamically extensible control plane is a key enabling feature of next generation intelligent selfconfiguring networks. This extensibility can be achieved by enabling service de...
Abstract—Networks cannot be managed without communication among geographically distributed network devices and control agents. Unfortunately, computer networks today lack an auto...
Hemant Gogineni, Albert G. Greenberg, David A. Mal...
Improving IP control plane (routing) robustness is critical to the creation of reliable and stable IP services. Yet very few tools exist for effective IP route monitoring and mana...
The Route Shepherd tool demonstrates applications of choosing between routing protocol configurations on the basis of rigorouslysupported theory. Splitting the configuration spa...
Alexander J. T. Gurney, Xianglong Han, Yang Li, Bo...
The OpenFlow framework enables flow-level control over Ethernet switching, as well as centralized visibility of the flows in the network. OpenFlow's coupling of these feature...
Jeffrey C. Mogul, Jean Tourrilhes, Praveen Yalagan...