Ethane: taking control of the enterprise
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OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A policy-aware switching layer for data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Virtualizing the network forwarding plane
Proceedings of the Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of Tomorrow
Network-wide deployment of intrusion detection and prevention systems
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
ETTM: a scalable fault tolerant network manager
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Design and implementation of a consolidated middlebox architecture
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Participatory networking: an API for application control of SDNs
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
SIMPLE-fying middlebox policy enforcement using SDN
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
FlowTags: enforcing network-wide policies in the presence of dynamic middlebox actions
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking
SoftCell: scalable and flexible cellular core network architecture
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Applying operating system principles to SDN controller design
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Managing the network with Merlin
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Enforcing network-wide policies in the presence of dynamic middlebox actions using flowtags
NSDI'14 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
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Current middlebox (MB) management mechanisms are clumsy and unsuitable for taking full advantage of new MB deployment models and diverse MB functionality. Instead, we advocate for mechanisms that help exercise unified control over the key factors influencing MB operations. Our goal is to realize a software-defined MB networking framework to simplify management of complex, diverse functionalities and engender rich deployments. We discuss the major challenges that arise---representing, manipulating, and knowledgeably controlling MB state---and we present initial thoughts on the appropriate abstractions and interfaces to address them.