Programming SDN-Native Big Data Applications: Research Gap Analysis

Software-Defined Networking has involved as a preferred abstraction for sharing network resources within a cloud datacenter in response to simultaneous data retrieval and computation demands from around the world. However, several research challenges need to be investigated before SDN powered-cloud datacenters are able to efficiently process big data as defined by its “4V” characteristics. Big data enabled-systems have to be able to respond to concurrent requests and allocate computing (e.g., virtual machine instances), storage (e.g., disk space) and networking (e.g., bandwidth) resources efficiently and effectively.