Software Defined Networking (Dagstuhl Seminar 12363)

This report documents the talks and discussions of Dagstuhl Seminar 12363 "Software Defined Networking". The presented talks represent a spectrum of industrial and academic work as well as both technical and organizational developments surrounding Software Defined Networking (SDN). The topic of SDN has garnered significant attention over the past few years in the networking community and beyond, and indeed the term "Software Defined Networking" itself carries different meaning among different circles. A key focus of the talks and discussions presented here is to capture the essence of SDN through concrete network applications, operational experience reports, and open research problems