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Towards an Autonomic Approach for Software Defined Networks: An Overview

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Under the new paradigm Software Defined Networking (SDN), which involves decoupling control plane from data plane, and allowing control planes to be deployed on external servers, our main goal is to propose an overview of architecture that can effectively solve problems of network QoS caused by this separation. The overall objective is to study and evaluate the use of SDN networks as a cornerstone of a communication system that can effectively support distributed applications whose needs change over time. In this paper, we focus, in particular, on the controller placement problem in SDN, optimizing the latency, resilience, reliability, scalability and other network performance. The technical solutions to these problems will be studied to identify the components of SDN that can be improved.

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    ONF is a user-driven organization dedicated to open standards and SDN adoption. It was launched in 2011 by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo!.

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    Soukaina Bouzghiba & Hamza Dahmouni

  2. QoS Design, 6, avenue Marcel Doret, 31500, Toulouse, France

    Anouar Rachdi

  3. CNRS, LAAS, 7 avenue du colonel Roche, 31400, Toulouse, France

    Jean-Marie Garcia

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Bouzghiba, S., Dahmouni, H., Rachdi , A., Garcia, JM. (2017). Towards an Autonomic Approach for Software Defined Networks: An Overview. In: El-Azouzi, R., Menasche, D.S., Sabir, E., De Pellegrini, F., Benjillali, M. (eds) Advances in Ubiquitous Networking 2. UNet 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 397. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1627-1_12

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