The Case for Software-Defined Networking in Heterogeneous Networked Environments

Marc Mendonca (1) , Katia Obraczka (1) , Thierry Turletti (2)

1 UCSC - Jack Baskin School of Engineering
2 PLANETE - Protocols and applications for the Internet

In this paper, motivated by the vision that future internets will comprise infrastructure-based and infrastructure-less networks, we explore the use of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm in these so-called "heterogeneous" networked environments. To make the case for SDN in heterogeneous networks, or Heterogeneous SDN (H-SDN), we examine application scenarios in which H-SDN is a key enabling technology. We also identify the additional features and requirements imposed by the H-SDN paradigm and discuss the research challenges they raised.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Marc Mendonca, Katia Obraczka, Thierry Turletti. The Case for Software-Defined Networking in Heterogeneous Networked Environments. CoNEXT Student '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on CoNEXT student workshop, Dec 2012, Nice, France. pp.59-60, ⟨10.1145/2413247.2413283⟩. ⟨hal-00687002⟩