Digitalization is boosting the manufacturing industry’s shift to smart systems, which will efficiently utilize potential of new technologies for their business outcomes and value. However, literature shows that companies have implemented very little digital technology due a lack required knowledge competences. Increasingly, interconnected, digitalized, complex processes lead skill requirements ...

Software-defined networking is emerging as a new paradigm for network design and implementation. However, many issues regarding this paradigm have been explored only on specific scenarios, e.g. network operating systems, networking customization, open commodity equipment, software-defined radio, data centers, etc. More general and deep studies are necessary to explore better this paradigm as it...

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...