Metadata in SDN API
This work tackles a specific bottleneck in SDN development for network engineers, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing REST models.
The paper addresses the lack of metadata support in REST-based SDN APIs, which hinders programming automation, and proposes a solution for representing metadata in these interfaces.
This paper discusses the system aspects of development of applied programming interfaces in Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Almost all existing SDN interfaces use so-called Representational State Transfer (REST) services as a basic model. This model is simple and straightforward for developers, but often does not support the information (metadata) necessary for programming automation. In this article, we cover the issues of representation of metadata in the SDN API.