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From the very beginning, the research in the SDN area has been concentrated upon exploring possibilities and evolve control plane programmability. Only recently, research revealed several limitations related to the data plane. As a consequence, begin to emerge several proposals to improve data plane programmability and flexibility. On the other hand, questions related to autonomic networking continues to evolve as since always a design target to SDN. In this sense, foreseeing that future networks will be fully programmable at both control and data planes, supporting in this way challenge management functions, this paper presents a new protocol to self-establishment of in-band control flows integrated to topology discovery to SDN-based networks, actuating at layer-2 and independent of any other protocol. The protocol has been formally specified and a simulation developed in the OMNeT++ platform demonstrated that the protocol scale properly in terms of the network size.
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This project was built with the support of MEHAR team. We would like to thank all who contributed with our research. This work has been partially funded by Brazilian agency CAPES.
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Freitas, M.S., Rosa, P.F., de Oliveira Silva, F. (2020). ConForm: In-Band Control Flows Self-establishment with Integrated Topology Discovery to SDN-Based Networks. In: Barolli, L., Amato, F., Moscato, F., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications. WAINA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44038-1_10
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