University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln CSE Journal Articles Computer Science and Engineering, Department of 2014 Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey Adrian Lara University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/csearticles Lara, Adrian; Kolasani, Anisha; and Ramamurthy, Byrav, "Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey" (2014). CSE Journal Articles. 118. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/csearticles/118 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Computer Science and Engineering, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in CSE Journal Articles by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS & TUTORIALS, VOL. 16, NO. 1, FIRST QUARTER 2014 493 Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey Adrian Lara, Anisha Kolasani, and Byrav Ramamurthy Abstract—OpenFlow is currently the most commonly deployed intermediate layer between the switch and the application. Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology. SDN consists of Another motivation is to move part of the complexity of the decoupling the control and data planes of a network. A software- network to the software-based controller instead of relying based controller is responsible for managing the forwarding in- formation of one or more switches; the hardware only handles the only on the hardware network devices. forwarding of traffic according to the rules set by the controller. OpenFlow [1] was proposed to standardize the communi- OpenFlow is an SDN technology proposed to standardize the cation between the switches and the software-based controller way that a controller communicates with network devices in in an SDN architecture.