Decoupling Policy from Routing with Software Defined Interdomain Management: Interdomain Routing for SDN-Based Networks

In this paper, we review why BGP is a poor candidate to facilitate the next generation of Software Defined Networks (SDN) and propose the Interdomain Management Layer (IML) architecture, a framework for facilitating interdomain resource sharing between these networks. IML uses a concept we call horizontal slicing, that allows SDN networks to become autonomous peers with other ASes, while maintaining centralized, operator-facing policy control and end-to- end flow control across interdomain boundaries.

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