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DC-CAMP: Dynamic Controller Creation, Allocation and Management Protocol in SDN

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Software-defined networking (SDN) is a new paradigm that influences all networking aspects. SDN decouples the control and data planes. Decoupling the control and data planes makes possible the management of network equipment in a more comfortable way by a control unit called the SDN controller. The SDN controller is the main component with a global view of the whole network. SDN controller is designed in a central or distributed manner. The main problem related to the design of the SDN controller is performance. In this paper, we propose an approach for dynamic creation, allocation, and management of SDN controllers in single and multi-domain networks on XEN hypervisor. In this approach, as soon as the OpenFlow packets are detected, the SDN controller can be created and assigned to multiple domains in the shortest possible time, by managing and monitoring the controllers created. The results show that the proposed approach improves the OpenFlow protocol discovery time compared to the other methods.

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Ahmadian, A., Ahmadi, M. DC-CAMP: Dynamic Controller Creation, Allocation and Management Protocol in SDN. Wireless Pers Commun 125, 531–558 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-022-09563-8

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