Software-Defined Data Plane Enhancing SDN and NFV

Akihiro NAKAO

doi:10.1587/transcom.E98.B.12

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Software-Defined Data Plane Enhancing SDN and NFV

Akihiro NAKAO

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In this paper, we posit that extension of SDN to support deeply and flexibly programmable, software-defined data plane significantly enhance SDN and NFV and their interaction in terms of (1) enhanced interaction between applications and networks, (2) optimization of network functions, and (3) rapid development of new network protocols. All of these benefits are expected to contribute to improving the quality of diversifying communication networks and services. We identify three major technical challenges for enabling software-defined data plane as (1) ease of programming, (2) reasonable and predictable performance and (3) isolation among multiple concurrent logics. We also promote application-driving thinking towards defining software defined data-plane. We briefly introduce our project FLARE and its related technologies and review four use cases of flexible and deeply programmable data plane.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E98-B No.1 pp.12-19

Publication Date: 2015/01/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E98.B.12

Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Quality of Diversifying Communication Networks and Services)

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Akihiro NAKAO
The University of Tokyo

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Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), network virtualization

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Akihiro NAKAO, "Software-Defined Data Plane Enhancing SDN and NFV" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E98-B, no. 1, pp. 12-19, January 2015, doi: 10.1587/transcom.E98.B.12.
Abstract: In this paper, we posit that extension of SDN to support deeply and flexibly programmable, software-defined data plane significantly enhance SDN and NFV and their interaction in terms of (1) enhanced interaction between applications and networks, (2) optimization of network functions, and (3) rapid development of new network protocols. All of these benefits are expected to contribute to improving the quality of diversifying communication networks and services. We identify three major technical challenges for enabling software-defined data plane as (1) ease of programming, (2) reasonable and predictable performance and (3) isolation among multiple concurrent logics. We also promote application-driving thinking towards defining software defined data-plane. We briefly introduce our project FLARE and its related technologies and review four use cases of flexible and deeply programmable data plane.
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