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A Survey on Data Plane Flexibility and Programmability in Software-Defined Networking
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Abstract
Software-defined networking (SDN) has attracted the attention of the research community in recent years, as evidenced by a large number of survey and review papers. The architecture of SDN clearly recognizes three planes: application, control, and data planes. The application plane executes network applications, the control plane regulates the rules for the entire network based on the requests generated by network applications, and based on the set rules, the controller configures the switches in the data plane. The role of the switch in the data plane is to simply forward packets based on the instructions given by the controller. By analyzing the SDN-related research papers, it is observed that research, from the very beginning, is insufficiently focused on the data plane. Therefore, this paper gives a comprehensive overview of the data plane survey with a particular emphasis on the problem of programmability and flexibility. The first part of the survey is dedicated to the evaluation of actual data plane architectures through several definitions and aspects of data plane flexibility and programmability. Then, an overview of the SDN-related research was presented with the aim of identifying the key factors influencing the gradual deviation from the original data plane architectures given with ForCES and OpenFlow specifications. In this paper, we used the term data plane evolution for this deviation. By establishing a correlation between the treated problem and the problem-solving approaches, the limitations of ForCES and OpenFlow data plane architectures were identified. Based on the identified limitations, a generalization of approaches to addressing the problem of data plane flexibility and programmability has been made. By examining the generalized approaches, open issues have been identified, establishing the grounds for future research directions proposal.
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@article{kaljic2019survey,
title = {A Survey on Data Plane Flexibility and Programmability in Software-Defined Networking},
author = {Enio Kaljić and Almir Marić and Pamela Njemčević and Mesud Hadžialić},
year = {2019},
journal = {IEEE Access},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
volume = {7},
pages = {47804--47840},
doi = {10.1109/access.2019.2910140},
}