Software networks
With the rise of programmable devices, the networking industry is currently facing deep changes to its fabric. Software networking, as it has been called, has been promoting a new era of innovation in all layers of the stack, from software defined radios in the physical layer [5] software switches and routers in L2 L3 [11] as well as deep packet inspection in L7 [1] The great success of software networks arguably started after the Clean Slate project [3] which proposed a complete Internet overhaul, questioning all the fundamental assumptions built into the IP architecture. SoftwareDefined Networking (SDN) then emerged to enable this vision, allowing researchers to run multiple simultaneous experiments without interfering on the production network [4, 9] The initiative flourished and its deployment has been
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