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Reflections on a clean slate 4D approach to network control and management

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It's been 15 years since what we now call Software Defined Network began emerging out of a set of ideas in the networking research community. This editorial note traces how the ideas in one particular paper from that time have evolved and found practical applications.

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    cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review  Volume 49, Issue 5
    October 2019
    114 pages
    ISSN:0146-4833
    DOI:10.1145/3371934
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    Published: 08 November 2019
    Published in SIGCOMM-CCR Volume 49, Issue 5

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    1. clean slate
    2. direct control
    3. software defined networking

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    • (2022)Making the Unaccountable Internet: The Changing Meaning of Accounting in the Early ARPANETProceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency10.1145/3531146.3533137(726-742)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2022
    • (2019)Reflections on SIGCOMM's fiftieth anniversaryACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review10.1145/3371934.337194149:5(16-17)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2019
    • (2019)Izzy: A Distributed Routing Protocol for In-band SDN Control Channel Connectivity2019 IEEE 44th LCN Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking (LCN Symposium)10.1109/LCNSymposium47956.2019.9000676(18-25)Online publication date: Oct-2019

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