Network-as-a-Service Architecture with SDN and NFV: A Proposed Evolutionary Approach for Service Provider Networks

The Internet continues to grow exponentially with proliferation of devices and users being connected to it along with an exploding demand for various resource and performance intensive network services like multimedia content distribution, security, mobility, and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. However, the current TCP/IP (Transmission...

Network Monitoring with Software Defined Networking: Towards OpenFlow network monitoring

Network monitoring is becoming more and more important as more Internet Service Providers and Enterprise networks deploy real-time services, like voice and video. Network operators need to have an up-to-date view of the network and to measure network performance with metrics like link usage, packet loss and delay, in order to assure the quality...