Enabling fast, dynamic network processing with clickOS
João Martins, Mohamed Fekih Ahmed, Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici · 2013
Middleboxes are both crucial to today's networks and ubiquitous, but embed knowledge of today's protocols and applications to the detriment of those of tomorrow, making the network harder to evolve. SDNs seek to make it easier to extend the network with new functionality, but most of the research effort has focused on the network's control plane, that is, how packets are switched are routed through a SDN.