著者

Kazuya SUZUKI Kentaro SONODA Nobuyuki TOMIZAWA Yutaka YAKUWA Terutaka UCHIDA Yuta HIGUCHI Toshio TONOUCHI Hideyuki SHIMONISHI

出版者

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

雑誌

IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications (ISSN:09168516)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.E97-B, no.2, pp.375-386, 2014-02-01

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The paper presents a survey on OpenFlow related technologies that have been proposed as a means for researchers, network service creators, and others to easily design, test, and deploy their innovative ideas in experimental or production networks to accelerate research activities on network technologies. Rather than having programmability within each network node, separated OpenFlow controllers provide network control through pluggable software modules; thus, it is easy to develop new network control functions in executable form and test them in production networks. The emergence of OpenFlow has started various research activities. The paper surveys these activities and their results.