A similarity model for virtual networks negotiation
Rafael L. Gomes, Luiz F. Bittencourt, Edmundo R. M. Madeira · 2014
Many companies use the Internet as a basis for their services, defining Service Level Agreements (SLA) with their respective Internet Service Providers (ISP). However, the current Internet works in a best effort manner, that points toward the concept of network virtualization and Software Defined Networks (SDN) to support the Future Internet. Within this context, this work proposes a similarity model and a similarity metric that enable the client to negotiate protocols for SDN and Virtual Networks (VN). The proposed model enables the free competition among providers and allows the client to compare protocols offered by the providers to identify which ones best fulfill the requested requirements. Experiments showed the effectiveness of the proposed model.