Software-Defined Networking: A survey

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is considered promising to simplify network management and enable research innovations based on the decomposition of the control and data planes. In this paper, we review SDN-related technologies. In particular, we try to cover three main parts of SDN: applications, the control plane, and the data plane anticipating that our efforts will help researchers set appropriate and meaningful directions for future SDN research.

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