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A Review of the Control Plane Scalability Approaches in Software Defined Networking

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  • Abdelrahman Abuarqoub

    (Department of Computer Science, Middle East University, 383 Amman 11831, Jordan)

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Recent advances in information and communications cloud-based services hold the potential to overcome the scalability and complex maintenance limitations of traditional networks. Software Defined Networking (SDN) surfaced as a promising paradigm to mitigate such limitations while offering flexible networks management. Particularly, SDN separates the control plane from the data plane to achieve abstraction of lower-level functionality, hence, allowing more efficient network management and utilization. However, SDN suffers from various performance and scalability problems leading to significant research efforts on maximizing the scalability of the control plane. This paper aims at reviewing different SDN controller scalability, topology-based and mechanism-based approaches, as well as discussing and analyzing how they attempt to solve the scalability challenge. Furthermore, this paper elaborates on the promising research trends and challenges. Our insights are also discussed to stimulate further research efforts addressing the control plane scalability in SDN.

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  • Abdelrahman Abuarqoub, 2020. "A Review of the Control Plane Scalability Approaches in Software Defined Networking," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-15, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:12:y:2020:i:3:p:49-:d:331211
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    1. Uttam Ghosh & Deepak Tosh & Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi & Ali Kashif Bashir & Al-Sakib Khan Pathan & Zhaolong Ning, 2022. "Cyber-Physical Systems: Prospects, Challenges and Role in Software-Defined Networking and Blockchains," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-2, December.

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