Overview of Cloud Computing

• M. Armbrust, A. Fox, R. Griffith, A. Joseph, R. Katz, A. Konwinski, G. Lee, D. Patterson, A. Rabkin, I. Stoica, M. Zaharia. Above the Cloud: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing, University of California Berkeley Technical Report, UCB/EECS-2009-28, 2009.
• I. Foster, Y. Zhao, I. Raicu, S. Lu. Cloud computing and grid computing 360-degree compared, Grid Computing Environments Workshop (GCE '08), 2008.
• A. Greenberg, J. Hamilton, D. Maltz, P. Patel. The Cost of a Cloud: Research Problems in Data Center Networks, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2009
• K. Church, A. Greenberg, J. Hamilton, On Delivering Embarrassingly Distributed Cloud Services, Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets VII), 2008
• J. Dean, S. Ghemawat. MapReduce: Simplified data processing on large clusters, USENIX Operating System Design Principles (OSDI '04), 2004
• M. Isard, M. Budiu, Y. Yu, A. Birrell, D. Fetterly. Dryad: distributed data-parallel programs from sequential building blocks, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 2007
• S. Ghemawat, H. Gobioff, S. Leung. The Google file system. Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Operating systems principles (SOSP '03), 2003
• L. Barroso, U. Hölzle, The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, 2009
• Q. Zhang, L. Cheng, R. Boutaba, Cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research challenges, Journal of Internet Services and Applications, Springer, 2010
• R. Boutaba, L. Cheng and Q. Zhang: On Cloud computational models and the heterogeneity challenge, Journal on Internet Services and Applications, Springer, December 2011

Data Center Topolgy and Design

• Schlinker, Brandon, et al. "Condor: Better Topologies Through Declarative Design." ACM SIGCOMM 2015
• He, Keqiang, Eric Rozner, Kanak Agarwal, Wes Felter, John Carter, and Aditya Akella. Presto: Edge-based Load Balancing for Fast Datacenter Networks. ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
• Singla, Ankit, Chi-Yao Hong, Lucian Popa, and P. Brighten Godfrey. Jellyfish: Networking data centers randomly. In Proceedings of USENIX NSDI 2012.
• A. R. Curtis, Tommy Carpenter, Mustafa Elsheikh, Alejandro López-Ortiz and S. Keshav. "REWIRE: An Optimization-based Framework for Unstructured Data Center Network Design", in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2012
• Stephens, Brent, Alan Cox, Wes Felter, Colin Dixon, and John Carter. "PAST: scalable ethernet for data centers." In Proceedings of ACM CoNext 2012.
• Wang, Guohui, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Konstantina Papagiannaki, TS Eugene Ng, Michael Kozuch, and Michael Ryan. "c-Through: Part-time optics in data centers." In ACM SIGCOMM 2010
• Chen, Kai, Anubhav Singla, Ashutosh Singh, Kishore Ramachandran, Lei Xu, Yueping Zhang, Xitao Wen, and Yan Chen. "OSA: an optical switching architecture for data center networks with unprecedented flexibility." IEEE/ACM ToN, 2014.
• Liu, Yunpeng James, Peter Xiang Gao, Bernard Wong, and Srinivasan Keshav. "Quartz: a new design element for low-latency DCNs." In ACM SIGCOMM 2014
• Hamedazimi, Navid, Zafar Qazi, Himanshu Gupta, Vyas Sekar, Samir R. Das, Jon P. Longtin, Himanshu Shah, and Ashish Tanwer. "FireFly: a reconfigurable wireless data center fabric using free-space optics." In ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
• J. Mudigonda, P. Yalagandula, M. Al-Fares, J. Mogul, Spain: Cots data-center ethernet for multipathing over arbitrary topologies, in Proceedings of NSDI 2010
• Zhou, Xia, Zengbin Zhang, Yibo Zhu, Yubo Li, Saipriya Kumar, Amin Vahdat, Ben Y. Zhao, and Haitao Zheng. "Mirror mirror on the ceiling: flexible wireless links for data centers." ACM SIGCOMM, 2012

Network Performance Management

• Hu, Shuihai, Kai Chen1 Haitao Wu2 Wei Bai, Chang Lan, Hao Wang1 Hongze Zhao, and Chuanxiong Guo. "Explicit Path Control in Commodity Data Centers: Design and Applications." USENIX NSDI 2015
• Zats, David, Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Rachit Agarwal, Randy Katz, Ion Stoica, and Amin Vahdat. "FastLane: making short flows shorter with agile drop notification." ACM SoCC 2015
• Vamanan, Balajee, Jahangir Hasan, and T. N. Vijaykumar. "Deadline-aware datacenter tcp (D2TCP)." ACM SIGCOMM 2012
• Zats, David, Tathagata Das, Prashanth Mohan, Dhruba Borthakur, and Randy Katz. "DeTail: Reducing the flow completion time tail in datacenter networks."ACM SIGCOMM 2012
• Hong, Chi-Yao, Matthew Caesar, and P. Godfrey. "Finishing flows quickly with preemptive scheduling." ACM SIGCOMM 2012
• Alizadeh, Mohammad, Abdul Kabbani, Tom Edsall, Balaji Prabhakar, Amin Vahdat, and Masato Yasuda. "Less is more: Trading a little bandwidth for ultra-low latency in the data center." In Proceedings of USENIX NSDI conference. 2012.
• Kapoor, Rishi, George Porter, Malveeka Tewari, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat. "Chronos: predictable low latency for data center applications." In Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC) 2012
• M. Al-Fares, S. Radhakrishnan, B. Raghavan, N. Huang, A. Vahdat, Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks, in Proceedings of USENIX NSDI, 2010
• M. Alizadeh, A. Greenberg, D. Maltz, J. Padhye, P. Patel, B. Prabhakar, S. Sengupta, M. Sridharan, Data Center TCP (DCTCP), in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, 2010
• T. Benson, A. Anand, A. Akella, M. Zhang, MicroTE: Fine Grained Traffic Engineering for Data Centers, ACM CoNext, 2011
• C. Raiciu, S. Barre, C. Pluntke, A. Greenhalgh, D. Wischik, M. Handley, Improving datacenter performance and robustness with multipath tcp, ACM SIGCOMM 2011
• C. Wilson, H. Ballani, T. Karagiannis, A. Rowstron, Better Never than Late: Meeting Deadlines in Datacenter Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2011

Network Resource Management

• Dogar, Fahad R., Thomas Karagiannis, Hitesh Ballani, and Antony Rowstron. "Decentralized task-aware scheduling for data center networks." ACM SIGCOMM 2014
• Ballani, Hitesh, Keon Jang, Thomas Karagiannis, Changhoon Kim, Dinan Gunawardena, and Greg O'Shea. Chatty Tenants and the Cloud Network Sharing Problem." USENIX NSDI 2013.
• A. Shieh, S. Kandula, A. Greenberg, C. Kim, C. B. Saha, Sharing the Data Center Network, in Proceedings of USENIX NSDI, 2011
• Popa, Lucian, Gautam Kumar, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Sylvia Ratnasamy, and Ion Stoica. "Faircloud: Sharing the network in cloud computing."ACM SIGCOMM 2012
• Xie, Di, Ning Ding, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ramana Kompella. "The only constant is change: incorporating time-varying network reservations in data centers." ACM SIGCOMM 2012
• Bodík, Peter, Ishai Menache, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Pradeepkumar Mani, David A. Maltz, and Ion Stoica. "Surviving failures in bandwidth-constrained datacenters." ACM SIGCOMM 2012.
• Wu, Xin, Daniel Turner, Chao-Chih Chen, David A. Maltz, Xiaowei Yang, Lihua Yuan, and Ming Zhang. "NetPilot: automating datacenter network failure mitigation." In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012
• C. Guo, G. Lu, Helen Wang, Shuang Yang, Chao Kong, Peng Sun, Wenfei Wu, Yongguang Zhang, SecondNet: A Data Center Network Virtualization Architecture with Bandwidth Guarantees, in Proceedings of ACM CoNext, 2010
• J. Mudigonda, P. Yalagandula, J. Mogul, B. Stiekes, Y. Pouffary, NetLord: a scalable multi-tenant network architecture for virtualized datacenters ACM SIGCOMM 2011
• H. Ballani, P. Costa, T. Karagiannis, A. and Rowstron, Towards Predictable Datacenter Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2011

Resource Management

• Stefanovici, Ioan, Eno Thereska, Greg O'Shea, Bianca Schroeder, Hitesh Ballani, Thomas Karagiannis, Antony Rowstron, and Tom Talpey. "Software-defined caching: Managing caches in multi-tenant data centers." ACM SoCC 2015
• Delgado, Pamela, Florin Dinu, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, and Willy Zwaenepoel. "Hawk: hybrid datacenter scheduling." USENIX ATC 2015
• Zhang, Qi, Quanyan Zhu, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Raouf Boutaba, and Joseph L. Hellerstein. "Dynamic service placement in geographically distributed clouds." IEEE ICDCS 2012.
• Zhang, Qi, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Raouf Boutaba, and Joseph L. Hellerstein. "Harmony: Dynamic heterogeneity-aware resource provisioning in the cloud." IEEE ICDCS 2013
• Hung, Chien-Chun, Leana Golubchik, and Minlan Yu. "Scheduling jobs across geo-distributed datacenters." ACM SoCC 2015.
• Wieder, Alexander, Pramod Bhatotia, Ansley Post, and Rodrigo Rodrigues. "Orchestrating the Deployment of Computations in the Cloud with Conductor." In Proceedings of the 9th USENIX NSDI, 2012.
• Rai, Anshul, Ranjita Bhagwan, and Saikat Guha. "Generalized resource allocation for the cloud." In Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, (SOCC) 2012.
• Jalaparti, Virajith, Hitesh Ballani, Paolo Costa, Thomas Karagiannis, and Ant Rowstron. "Bridging the tenant-provider gap in cloud services." In Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), p. 10. ACM, 2012.
• T. Wood, P. Shenoy, A. Venkataramani, M. Yousif, Black-box and Gray-box Strategies for Virtual Machine Migration, in Proceedings of NSDI, 2007
• Z. Shen, S. Subbiah, X. Gu, J. Wilkes, CloudScale: Elastic Resource Scaling for Multi-Tenant Cloud Systems ACM SoCC 2011
• Bikash Sharma, Victor Chudnovsky, Joseph L. Hellerstein Rasekh Rifaat, and Chita R. Das, Modeling and Synthesizing Task Placement Constraints in Google Compute Clusters ACM SoCC 2011

MapReduce and Big Data Applications

• Zaharia, Matei, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Justin Ma, Murphy McCauley, Michael Franklin, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica. "Resilient distributed datasets: A fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing." In Proceedings of NSDI. 2012.
• Pu, Qifan, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Peter Bodik, Srikanth Kandula, Aditya Akella, Paramvir Bahl, and Ion Stoica. "Low latency geo-distributed data analytics." ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
• Ousterhout, Kay, et al. "Making sense of performance in data analytics frameworks." USENIX NSDI 2015.
• Costa, Paolo, Austin Donnelly, Antony Rowstron, and Greg O’Shea. "Camdoop: Exploiting in-network aggregation for big data applications." In USENIX NSDI, vol. 12. 2012.
• Agarwal, Sameer, Srikanth Kandula, Nicolas Bruno, Ming-Chuan Wu, Ion Stoica, and Jingren Zhou. "Re-Optimizing data-parallel computing." In Proc. of USENIX NSDI. 2012.
• Jalaparti, Virajith, et al. "Network-Aware Scheduling for Data-Parallel Jobs: Plan When You Can." Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication. ACM, 2015.
• Ramakrishnan, Smriti R., Garret Swart, and Aleksey Urmanov. "Balancing reducer skew in MapReduce workloads using progressive sampling." ACM SOCC 2012
• Balancing Reducer Skew in MapReduce Workloads using Progressive Sampling
• Ferguson, Andrew D., Peter Bodik, Srikanth Kandula, Eric Boutin, and Rodrigo Fonseca. "Jockey: guaranteed job latency in data parallel clusters." ACM Eurosys, 2012.
  
• M. Zaharia, A. Konwinski, A. Joseph, R. Katz, I. Stoica, Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments, in Proceedings of OSDI, 2008
• M. Zaharia, D. Borthakur, J. Sen Sarma, K. Elmeleegy, S. Shenker and I. Stoica. Delay Scheduling: A Simple Technique for Achieving Locality and Fairness in Cluster Scheduling, in Proceedings of ACM Eurosys, 2010
• G. Ananthanarayanan, S. Kandula, A. Greenberg, I. Stoica, Y. Lu, B. Saha, E. Harris, Reining in the Outliers in Map-Reduce Clusters using Mantri, in Proceedings of OSDI, 2010
• Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types, USENIX NSDI 2011
• Chowdhury, Mosharaf, Yuan Zhong, and Ion Stoica. "Efficient coflow scheduling with Varys." ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
• M. Chowdhury, M. Zaharia, J. Ma, M. Jordan, I. Stoica, Managing Data Transfers in Computer Clusters with Orchestra, ACM SIGCOMM 2011

Overview of SDN

• Albert Greenberg, Gisli Hjalmtysson, David A. Maltz, Andy Myers, Jennifer Rexford, Geoffrey Xie, Hong Yan, Jibin Zhan, and Hui Zhang. A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management, SIGCOMM CCR 2005.
• Martin Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick McKeown, and Scott Shenker. Ethane: taking control of the enterprise, SIGCOMM 2007.
• Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan, Guru Parulkar, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, and Jonathan Turner. OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks, SIGCOMM CCR 2008.
• Natasha Gude, Teemu Koponen, Justin Pettit, Ben Pfaff, Martín Casado, Nick McKeown, and Scott Shenker. NOX: towards an operating system for networks, SIGCOMM CCR 2008.
• Ben Pfaff, Justin Pettit, Teemu Koponen, Keith Amidon, Martin Casado, and Scott Shenker. Extending Networking into the Virtualization Layer, HotNets-VIII 2009.
• Rob Sherwood, Glen Gibb, Kok-Kiong Yap, Guido Appenzeller, Martin Casado, Nick McKeown, and Guru Parulkar. Can the production network be the testbed?, OSDI 2010.
• Nunes, Bruno Astuto A; Mendonca, Marc; Nguyen, Xuan-Nam; Obraczka, Katia; Turletti, Thierry. A Survey of Software-Defined Networking: Past, Present, and Future of Programmable Networks, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2014
• Diego Kreutz, Fernando M. V. Ramos, Paulo Verissimo, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Siamak Azodolmolky, Steve Uhlig. Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey, Proceedings of the IEEE.
• Stefano Vissicchio, Laurent Vanbever, Olivier Bonaventure. Opportunities and Research Challenges of Hybrid Software Defined Networks, SIGCOMM CCR 2014.
• Adrian Lara, Anisha Kolasani, and Byrav Ramamurthy. Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2014.

Control & Data Plane

• Pfaff, Ben, et al. "The design and implementation of Open vSwitch." USENIX NSDI 2015
• Jin, Xin, Jennifer Gossels, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. "CoVisor: A Compositional Hypervisor for Software-Defined Networks." USENIX NSDI 2015
• Teemu Koponen, Martin Casado, Natasha Gude, Jeremy Stribling, Leon Poutievski, Min Zhu, Rajiv Ramanathan, Yuichiro Iwata, Hiroaki Inoue, Takayuki Hama and Scott Shenker. Onix: a distributed control platform for large-scale production networks, OSDI, 2010.
• Soheil Hassas Yeganeh and Yashar Ganjali. Kandoo: a framework for efficient and scalable offloading of control applications, HotSDN 2012.
• Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford, Michael J. Freedman, and Jia Wang. Scalable flow-based networking with DIFANE, SIGCOMM 2010.
• Andrew R. Curtis, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Jean Tourrilhes, Praveen Yalagandula, Puneet Sharma, Sujata Banerjee. DevoFlow: scaling flow management for high-performance networks, SIGCOMM 2011.
• Pat Bosshart, Glen Gibb, Hun-Seok Kim, George Varghese, Nick McKeown, Martin Izzard, Ferndando Mujica, and Mark Horowitz. Forwarding Metamorphosis: Fast Programmable Match-Action Processing in Hardware for SDN, SIGCOMM 2013.
• Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Murtaza Motiwala, Mukarram bin Tariq, and Nick Feamster. SwitchBlade: a platform for rapid deployment of network protocols on programmable hardware, SIGCOMM 2010.
• Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris, Benjie Chen, John Jannotti, and M. Frans Kaashoek. The click modular router, TOCS 2000.
• Dan Levin, Andreas Wundsam, Brandon Heller, Nikhil Handigol, and Anja Feldmann. Logically centralized?: state distribution trade-offs in software defined networks, HotSDN 2012.
• Amin Tootoonchian, Yashar Ganjali. HyperFlow: A Distributed Control Plane for OpenFlow, INM/WREN 2010.

Programming Language, Verification, Consistent Network Update

• Prakash, Chaithan, et al. "PGA: Using Graphs to Express and Automatically Reconcile Network Policies." ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
• Kim, Hyojoon, Joshua Reich, Arpit Gupta, Muhammad Shahbaz, Nick Feamster, and Russ Clark. "Kinetic: Verifiable Dynamic Network Control." USENIX NSDI 2015
• Anwer, Bilal, Theophilus Benson, Nick Feamster, and Dave Levin. Programming slick network functions." ACM SOSR 2015.
• Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, Michael J. Freedman, Christopher Monsanto, Jennifer Rexford, Alec Story, and David Walker. Frenetic: A network programming language, International Conference on Functional Programming (IFIP) 2011.
• Christopher Monsanto, Joshua Reich, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. Composing Software-Defined Networks, NSDI 2013.
• Andreas Voellmy, Junchang Wang, Y. Richard Yang, Bryan Ford, and Paul Hudak. Maple: Simplifying SDN Programming Using Algorithmic Policies, SIGCOMM 2013.
• Peyman Kazemian, Michael Chang, and Hongyi Zeng, George Varghese, Nick McKeown, Scott Whyte. Real Time Network Policy Checking Using Header Space Analysis, NSDI 2013.
• Ahmed Khurshid, Xuan Zou, Wenxuan Zhou, Matthew Caesar, and P. Brighten Godfrey. VeriFlow: Verifying Network-Wide Invariants in Real Time, NSDI 2013.
• Arjun Guha, Mark Reitblatt, and Nate Foster. Machine-Verified Network Controllers, PLDI 2013.
• Mark Reitblatt, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, Cole Schlesinger, and David Walker. Abstractions for network update, SIGCOMM 2012.
• Peter Peresini, Maciej Kuzniar, Nedeljko Vasic, Marco Canini, and Dejan Kostiu. OF.CPP: consistent packet processing for openflow, HotSDN 2013.
• Hongqiang Harry Liu, Xin Wu, Ming Zhang, Lihua Yuan, Roger Wattenhofer, and David Maltz. zUpdate: updating data center networks with zero loss, SIGCOMM 2013.
• Aurojit Panda, Colin Scott, Ali Ghodsi, Teemu Koponen, Scott Shenker. CAP for Networks, HotSDN 2013.

Debugging, Fault-Tolerance, Security

• Tilmans, Olivier, and Stefano Vissicchio. "IGP-as-a-Backup for Robust SDN Networks." CNSM 2014
• Nikhil Handigol, Brandon Heller, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, David Mazières, and Nick McKeown. Where is the Debugger for my Software-Defined Network?, ACM HotSDN 2012.
• Marco Canini, Daniele Venzano, Peter Peresini, Dejan Kostic, and Jennifer Rexford. A NICE way to test openflow applications, USENIX NSDI 2012.
• Mark Reitblatt, Marco Canini, Arjun Guha, and Nate Foster. FatTire: declarative fault tolerance for software-defined networks, ACM HotSDN 2013.
• Dhawan, M., Poddar, R., Mahajan, K., & Mann, V. SPHINX: Detecting security attacks in software-defined networks. In proceedings of NDSS 2015
• Wang, H., Xu, L., & Gu, G. FloodGuard: A DoS Attack Prevention Extension in Software-Defined Networks. In proceedings of IEEE/IFIP DSN 2015
• Hong, S., Xu, L., Wang, H., & Gu, G. Poisoning Network Visibility in Software-Defined Networks: New Attacks and Countermeasures In proceedings of NDSS 2015
• Seugwon Shin, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Martin Fong, Guofei Gu, Mabry Tyson. FRESCO: Modular Composable Security Services for Software-Defined Networks, NDSS 2012.
• Philip Porras, Seungwon Shin, Vinod Yegneswaran, Martin Fong, Mabry Tyson, and Guofei Gu. A security enforcement kernel for OpenFlow networks, ACM HotSDN 2012.
• Seungwon Shin, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras and Guofei Gu. AVANT-GUARD: Scalable and Vigilant Switch Flow Management in Software-Defined Networks, ACM CCS 2013.
• Nikhil Handigol, Brandon Heller, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, David Mazières, Nick McKeown. I Know What Your Packet Did Last Hop: Using Packet Histories to Troubleshoot Networks, NSDI 2014.
• Hongqiang Harry Liu, Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan, Ming Zhang, David Gelernter. Traffic Engineering with Forward Fault Correction, SIGCOMM 2014.
• Colin Scott et al. Troubleshooting SDN Control Software with Minimal Causal Sequences, SIGCOMM 2014.
• H Kim, JR Santos, Y Turner, M Schlansker, J Tourrilhes, N Feamster. CORONET: Fault tolerance for Software Defined Networks, ICNP 2012.

Monitoring & Traffic Engineering

• Gong, Yanlei, Xiong Wang, Mehdi Malboubi, Sheng Wang, Shizhong Xu, and Chen-Nee Chuah. Towards accurate online traffic matrix estimation in software-defined networks., ACM SOSR 2015.
• Hu, Zhiming, and Jun Luo. Cracking Network Monitoring in DCNs with SDN, IEEE INFOCOM. 2015.
• Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan, Amin Vahdat. DREAM: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Software-defined Measurement, SIGCOMM 2014.
• C. Yu, C. Lumezanu, Y. Zhang, V. Singh, G. Jiang, and H. V. Madhyastha. FlowSense: Monitoring Network Utilization with Zero Measurement Cost, PAM 2013.
• Yu, Curtis, et al. "Software-Defined Latency Monitoring in Data Center Networks." PAM 2015.
• M. Yu, L. Jose, and R. Miao. Software defined traffic measurement with opensketch, NSDI 2013.
• A. Tootoonchian, M. Ghobadi, and Y. Ganjali. OpenTM: traffic matrix estimator for OpenFlow networks, PAM 2010.
• Sugam Agarwal, Murali Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman. Traffic Engineering in Software Defined Networks, INFOCOM 2013.
• Angel, Sebastian, et al. "End-to-end performance isolation through virtual datacenters." USENIX OSDI 2014
• Kumar, Alok, et al. "BwE: Flexible, Hierarchical Bandwidth Allocation for WAN Distributed Computing.", ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
• Seungwon Shin, Guofei Gu. CloudWatcher: Network security monitoring using OpenFlow in dynamic cloud networks, ICNP 2012.
• Charalampos Rotsos, Nadi Sarrar, Steve Uhlig, Rob Sherwood, Andrew W. Moore. OFLOPS: An Open Framework for OpenFlow Switch Evaluation, PAM 2012.
• Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Md. Faizul Bari, Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba. PayLess: A Low Cost Network Monitoring Framework for Software Defined Networks, NOMS 2014.

SDN in WAN

• Vissicchio, Stefano, Olivier Tilmans, Laurent Vanbever, and Jennifer Rexford. "Central control over distributed routing." ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
• Hartert, Renaud, Stefano Vissicchio, Pierre Schaus, Olivier Bonaventure, Clarence Filsfils, Thomas Telkamp, and Pierre Francois. "A Declarative and Expressive Approach to Control Forwarding Paths in Carrier-Grade Networks." ACM SIGCOMM 2015
• Sushant Jain, Alok Kumar, Subhasree Mandal, Joon Ong, Leon Poutievski, Arjun Singh, Subbaiah Venkata, Jim Wanderer, Junlan Zhou, Min Zhu, Jonathan Zolla, Urs Holzle, Stephen Stuart and Amin Vahdat. B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN, SIGCOMM 2013.
• Chi-Yao Hong, Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan, Ming Zhang, Vijay Gill, Mohan Nanduri, Roger Wattenhofer. Achieving High Utilization with Software-Driven WAN, SIGCOMM 2013.
• Arpit Gupta, Laurent Vanbever, Muhammad Shahbaz, Sean P. Donovan, Brandon Schlinker, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, Russ Clark, Ethan Katz-Bassett. SDX: A Software Defined Internet Exchange, SIGCOMM 2014.
• Md. Faizul Bari, Arup Raton Roy, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Qi Zhang, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba. Dynamic Controller Provisioning in Software Defined Networks, CNSM 2013.
• R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba. Design Considerations for Managing Wide Area Software Defined Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine 2014.

Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

• Shoumik Palkar et al. E2: A Framework for NFV Applications, ACM SOSP 2015.
• Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Cheng-Chun Tu, Luis Chiang, Rui Miao, Vyas Sekar, and Minlan Yu. SIMPLE-fying Middlebox Policy Enforcement Using SDN, ACM SIGCOMM 2013.
• Aaron Gember, Prathmesh Prabhu, Zainab Ghadiyali, and Aditya Akella. Toward software-defined middlebox networking, ACM HotNets 2012.
• Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh, Luis Chiang, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu, Jeffrey C Mogul. Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox Actions using FlowTags, USENIX NSDI 2014.
• Sherry, Justine, et al. "Rollback-Recovery for Middleboxes." ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
• Rajagopalan, Shriram, Dan Williams, and Hani Jamjoom. "Pico Replication: A high availability framework for middleboxes." ACM SoCC 2013
• James W. Anderson, Ryan Braud, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat. xOMB: extensible open middleboxes with commodity servers, ANCS 2012.
• Shriram Rajagopalan, Dan Williams, Hani Jamjoom, and Andrew Warfield. Split/merge: system support for elastic execution in virtual middleboxes, USENIX NSDI 2013.
• Vyas Sekar, Norbert Egi, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael K. Reiter, and Guangyu Shi. Design and implementation of a consolidated middlebox architecture, USENIX NSDI 2012.
• Joao Martins, Mohamed Ahmed, Costin Raiciu, Vladimir Olteanu, Michio Honda, Roberto Bifulco, and Felipe Huici. ClickOS and the Art of Network Function Virtualization, USENIX NSDI 2014.
• Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Raajay Viswanathan, Chaithan Prakash, Robert Grandl, Junaid Khalid, Sourav Das, Aditya Akella. OpenNF: Enabling Innovation in Network Function Control, SIGCOMM 2014.
• Olteanu, Vladimir, Felipe Huici, and Costin Raiciu. "Lost in Network Address Translation: Lessons from Scaling the World’s Simplest Middlebox." HotMiddlebox Workshop 2015