Application Enabled SDN (A-SDN)
Mohamed Boucadair, Reinaldo Penno, Dan Wing, Suresh Vinapamula, Tirumaleswar Reddy.K · 2013
To allow traversal of firewalls or provide additional network services such as QoS or supplemental bandwidth, it is necessary to deploy application-aware network elements. Such network elements are costly to create, deploy, and are unable to adequately cope with changes to the application itself, stifling innovation. This document describes a different approach, where the application explicitly signals its needs to the network.