State of the Art and Recent Research Advances in Software Defined Networking

<table class="table-group" id="tab5"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Category</td><td class="align_left">Purpose</td><td class="align_left">Software and tools</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Emulation and simulation</td><td class="align_left">Emulating network topologies as well as providing a reference for network event simulation</td><td class="align_left">Mininet [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B117">107</a>], ns-3 [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B118">108</a>], OMNeT++ [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B120">109</a>]</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Software switches and platforms</td><td class="align_left">A software platform to test and validate switch-controller behaviour and southbound protocol working</td><td class="align_left">Open vSwitch [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B93">80</a>], ofsoftswitch13 [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B97">84</a>], Indigo [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B94">81</a>], Pica8 PicOS [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B101">87</a>], Pantou [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B98">85</a>]</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Debugging and troubleshooting</td><td class="align_left">Specialist tool set to debug SDN behaviour at the switch and controller level</td><td class="align_left">STS [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B114">110</a>], Open vSwitch [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B93">80</a>], NICE [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B115">111</a>], OFTest [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B116">112</a>], Anteater [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B117">107</a>], VeriFlow [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B118">108</a>], OFRewind [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B119">113</a>], NDB [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B120">109</a>], Wireshark [<a href="/journals/wcmc/2017/7191647/#B121">114</a>]</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Common Simulation Platforms and Debugging Tools.

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Table 5: State of the Art and Recent Research Advances in Software Defined Networking 