SDN/NFV orchestration for dynamic deployment of virtual SDN controllers as VNF for multi-tenant optical networks
Raül Muñoz, Ricard Vilalta, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martínez, Thomas Szyrkowiec, Achim Autenrieth, Vı́ctor López, David L. Lopez · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2015
We propose to virtualize the SDN control functions and move them to the cloud. We experimentally evaluate the first SDN/NFV orchestration architecture to dynamically deploy independent SDN controller instances for each deployed virtual optical network.