A Systematic Literature Review on Military Software Defined Networks <s> Research Method <s> This working paper has been thoroughly revised and superseded by two distinct articles. The first is a revised and peer-reviewed version of the original article: Okoli, Chitu (2015), A Guide to Conducting a Standalone Systematic Literature Review. Communications of the Association for Information Systems (37:43), November 2015, pp. 879-910. This article presents a methodology for conducting a systematic literature review with many examples from IS research and references to guides with further helpful details. The article is available from Google Scholar or from the author's website. The second extension article focuses on developing theory with literature reviews: Okoli, Chitu (2015), The View from Giants’ Shoulders: Developing Theory with Theory-Mining Systematic Literature Reviews. SSRN Working Paper Series, December 8, 2015. This article identifies theory-mining reviews, which are literature reviews that extract and synthesize theoretical concepts from the source primary studies. The article demonstrates by citation analysis that, in information systems research, this kind of literature review is more highly cited than other kinds of literature review. The article provides detailed guidelines to writing a high-quality theory-mining review. <s> BIB001 </s> A Systematic Literature Review on Military Software Defined Networks <s> Research Method <s> Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a recently evolving networking architecture that focuses on the separation of control and data planes. Unlike traditional switches, SDN switches include flow tables that are remotely controlled by a separate software application, the controller. SDN is not completely new; it formulates an architecture on top of several good practices. In this paper, we examined the obtainable knowledge about SDN through conducting a systematic literature review (SLR) to evaluate the current SDN state of the art in terms of research tracks, publications, trends, etc. We systematically evaluate research in SDN based on questions formulated for this purpose. The results present outline information about the most active research areas, tools, security issues, obstacles, limitations, strengths, and opportunities in SDN. <s> BIB002
For the execution of this study we utilized the method described by Okoli and Schabram BIB001 , for conducting systematic literature reviews of information systems research, adopting additional useful components from the studies presented in Section 2, and particularly articles BIB002  . This method is comprised of the following distinct steps: 1. "Purpose of the literature review:" For our study, the "Purpose of the literature review" has been defined as: to analyze the current state of the art within the topic of military SDN, in terms of research tracks, publications, methods, trends, and to make recommendations for future research. Accordingly the executed tasks seek to satisfy the following explicit goals: (e) To make recommendations for future research.