Towards SDN
Motivations
The Future of Networking, and the Past of Protocols, Scott Shenker (video of talk at Ericsson)
Beginnings
The Road to SDN, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Ellen Zegura, 2013
Ethane: Taking Control of the Enterprise, Martìn Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker, Sigcomm 2007
Design and Implementation of a Routing Control Platform, Matthew Caesar, Donald Caldwell, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Aman Shaikh, Jacobus van der Merwe, NSDI 2005
A Clean Slate 4D Approach to Network Control and Management, Albert Greenberg, Gisli Hjalmtysson, David A. Maltz, Andy Myers, Jennifer Rexford, Geoffrey Xie, Hong Yan, Jibin Zhan, Hui Zhang, CCR 2005
SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks, Martìn Casado, Tal Garfinkel, Aditya Akella, Michael J. Freedman, Dan Boneh, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker, Usenix Security 2006
Tesseract: A 4D Network Control Plane, Hong Yan, David A. Maltz, T.S. Eugene Ng, Hemant Gogineni, Hui Zhang, Zheng Cai, NSDI 2007
The Case for Separating Routing from Routers, Nick Feamster, Hari Balakrishnan, Jennifer Rexford, Aman Shaikh, Jacobus van der Merwe, FDNA 2004
A Survey of Active Network Research, David L. Tennenhouse, Jonathan M. Smith, W. David Sincoskie, David J. Wetherall, Gary J. Minden, IEEE Communications 1997
The Tempest: A Practical Framework for Network Programmability, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, Sean Rooney, Ian Leslie, Simon Crosby, IEEE Network 1998
In VINI Veritas: Realistic and Controlled Network Experimentation, Andy Bavier, Nick Feamster, Mark Huang, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford, Sigcomm 2006
IETF ForCES (Forwarding and Control Element Separation)
OpenFlow
OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks, Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan, Guru Parulkar, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, Jonathan Turner, CCR 2008
What OpenFlow is (and more importantly, what it’s not), Martìn Casado
Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors, Pat Bosshart, Dan Daly, Martin Izzard, Nick McKeown, Jennifer Rexford, Dan Talayco, Amin Vahdat, George Varghese, David Walker
