• Mehul Manani
• Nital Prajapati

With the advancement in network technology, network management becomes more complex and time-consuming. The high bandwidth requirement, dynamic network management, scalability, and flexibility are critical issues in traditional networks. Software Defined Networking (SDN) brings new hope for the modern complex network architectures and promises to fulfill the requirements. SDN offers several advantages like network programmability, simpler configuration management, better security, performance improvement over traditional networking. SDN achieves the performance by separating the control plane from the data plane from networking devices. Network programmability also motivates more research opportunities. However, SDN is still in its growing phase, it requires attention by academicians and technocrats. This paper aims to conduct a survey on various basic aspects of SDN which includes history, definition, and architecture. It also covers the applications and advantages of the SDN over the conventional network. Moreover, this survey paper also concludes the wide future research areas of this revolutionary network architecture for potential researchers. Overall this survey paper can show the path to the academicians and industry research and development teams to put their first step in the ocean of the SDN.

Software Defined Network, Survey of SDN, Future of Network, SDN advantages, SDN applications.

"A SURVEY OF SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK: THE RISE OF FUTURE NETWORK", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.439-452, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C72.pdf

"A SURVEY OF SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK: THE RISE OF FUTURE NETWORK", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp439-452, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C72.pdf