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The road to SDN: an intellectual history of programmable networks

The work

AuthorsNick Feamster; Jennifer Rexford; Ellen Witte Zegura
Editors
Typearticle
Year2014
Also known asfeamster2013road
Citekeyfeamster2014road

Where it appeared

Published inQueue
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Volume11
Issue12
Pages20--40

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/2559899.2560327
OpenAlexW2126482901

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Abstract

Designing and managing networks has become more innovative over the past few years with the aid of SDN (software-defined networking). This technology seems to have appeared suddenly, but it is actually part of a long history of trying to make computer networks more programmable.

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Cite it as

@article{feamster2014road,
  title        = {The road to SDN: an intellectual history of programmable networks},
  author       = {Nick Feamster and Jennifer Rexford and Ellen Witte Zegura},
  year         = {2014},
  journal      = {Queue},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  volume       = {11},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {20--40},
  doi          = {10.1145/2559899.2560327},
}

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