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The control plane, removed

A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.

What happens to a network when the control plane is lifted out of the boxes that forward packets. Collects the argument that policy and mechanism were tangled, the architectures that separate them, and what a switch no longer has to keep once they are apart. Membership turns on the separation being the subject rather than an implementation detail.

17 references

Technology Considerations: SCION
National Cyber Security Centre (2025) · National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport, Switzerland
Where is My Route? Enabling Source Routing in LEO Satellite Networks
Satvik Vemuganti and others (2024) · 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring) · IEEE
Mitigating data plane device compromise in programmable networks
Conor Black (2023)
The Complete Guide to SCION
Laurent Chuat and others (2022) · Springer
A review on software defined network security risks and challenges
Tsehay Admassu Assegie and others (2019) · TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control) · Ahmad Dahlan University
Rethinking IXPs' Architecture in the Age of SDN
Marc Bruyere and others (2018) · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
An Industrial-Scale Software Defined Internet Exchange Point
Arpit Gupta and others (2016) · 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '16) · USENIX Association
A survey of security in software defined networks
Sandra Scott-Hayward and others (2016) · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · IEEE
Path switching: Reduced-state flow handling in SDN using path information
Adiseshu Hari and others (2015) · Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies
Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey
Diego Kreutz and others (2015) · Proceedings of the IEEE · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Collaborating with the enemy on network management
Chris Hall and others (2014) · Security Protocols XXII · Springer
Virtualization and Distribution of the BGP Control Plane
Mihaela Iuniana Oprescu (2012)
Separating routing policy from mechanism in the network layer
James Griffioen and others (2011) · Next-Generation Internet · Cambridge University Press
OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks
Nick McKeown and others (2008) · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Securing User-controlled Routing Infrastructures
Karthik Lakshminarayanan and others (2007) · Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley
Final Report for the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Control Plane Security LDRD Project
Thomas D. Tarman and others (2003) · Sandia National Laboratories
Architecture and control of an adaptive high capacity flat network
Eric Livermore and others (1998) · IEEE Communications Magazine