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...

Value creation through network infrastructure automation: The Software-Defined Networking Technology and its business model from the IT service provider’s perspective

Our research is exploring how the computer network technology of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) can benefit an IT service provider. SDN is a novel technology that is capable of managing a whole network based on a single centralized entity. As a result an SDN enabled network becomes more flexible, automatable and programmable to satisfy users’...

Increasing robustness of Software-Defined Networks

In this thesis, an overview on performed research is given to investigate possible enhancements and solutions to enable SDN as future network paradigm. Currently, beside robustness, problems exist on scalability and security with the application of SDN to current network infrastructures. On robustness, current research do not provide the...