Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been widely adopted to enable the network programmability by decoupling controller logic from data plane. Domain partitioning is essential for SDN-enabled communication networks partition oversized topology into controllable and administrative domains. Existing domain algorithms failed take connectivity, balance constraint, compactness, traffic cohesion con...

In previous chapters we have seen why SDN is necessary and what preceded the actual advent of SDN in the research and industrial communities. In this chapter we provide an overview of how SDN actually works, including discussion of the basic components of a Software Defined Networking system, their roles, and how they interact with one another. In the first part of this chapter we focus on the ...

Managing a network requires support for multiple concurrent tasks, from routing and traffic monitoring, to access control and server load balancing. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows applications to realize these tasks directly, by installing packet-processing rules on switches. However, today’s SDN platforms provide limited support for creating modular applications. This paper introduce...