Virtualized Software-Defined Networks and Services - Hardcover

Qiang Duan is an associate professor of information sciences and technology at the Pennsylvania State University Abington College. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Mississippi.
Mehmet Toy is currently a distinguished member of technical staff (DMTS)at Verizon Communications and involved in SDN, NFV, and cloud architectures and standards. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.

Practicing network engineers as well as network researchers and developers will find the essential background for incorporating SDN, NV/NFV, as well as networking techniques that combine SDN and NV/NFV in their work in this book. The book also provides senior-level undergraduate students, first-year graduate students, and Ph.D. students engaged in networking research with a readily accessible, yet comprehensive introduction to SDN, NV/NFV, and related virtualization of SDN networks. --Martin Reisslein,Ph.D., Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe

The authors have succinctly elicited the key features of SDN and NFV, and advocated the unification of both technologies in facilitating future potential networking services. The book is a useful resource for network engineers and researchers to learn and deploy these technologies in future networks. --Nirwan Ansari, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

This book is a very specific reference recommended for software engineers and collections catering to them, and reviews the Software-Defined Network technologies that include various controllers and protocols.
The extent of these technologies are covered in a book designed for professional pursuit, and is supported by numerous diagrams, charts, and technical information throughout.
From challenges to current SDN design for service provisioning to issues surrounding virtual network survivability in the event of faults and regional failures and how different abstraction layers create multiple independent virtual possibilities, this is a technical and detailed discussion that will provide much reference information, backed by data and statistics and recommended for any software engineer. --Diane Donovan, Editor, California Bookwatch, Donovan s Literary Services