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Network Configuration in OpenFlow Networks

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Software-defined networking (SDN) and in particular networks based on an OpenFlow control plane are expected to take significant share in upcoming deployments. Network programmability has emerged as a particularly desirable property for such new deployments, in which logically centralized software will be able to both control and manage operation. This paper focuses on one aspect of network management, namely configuration, in light of the ongoing work in the FP7 ALIEN project to augment a variety of devices with an OpenFlow control plane. In particular, we review management for programmable networks and present how software-defined control can be complemented with software-defined configuration.

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This work was conducted within the framework of the FP7 ALIEN project, which is partially funded by the Commission of the European Union.

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    Adel Zaalouk & Kostas Pentikousis

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Zaalouk, A., Pentikousis, K. (2015). Network Configuration in OpenFlow Networks. In: Agüero, R., Zinner, T., Goleva, R., Timm-Giel, A., Tran-Gia, P. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16292-8_7

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