RT Journal Article T1 Software Defined Networks in Wireless Sensor Architectures A1 Puente Fernández, Jesús Antonio A1 García Villalba, Luis Javier A1 Kim, Tai-Hoon AB Nowadays, different protocols coexist in Internet that provides services to users. Unfortunately, control decisions and distributed management make it hard to control networks. These problems result in an inefficient and unpredictable network behaviour. Software Defined Networks (SDN) is a new concept of network architecture. It intends to be more flexible and to simplify the management in networks with respect to traditional architectures. Each of these aspects are possible because of the separation of control plane (controller) and data plane (switches) in network devices. OpenFlow is the most common protocol for SDN networks that provides the communication between control and data planes. Moreover, the advantage of decoupling control and data planes enables a quick evolution of protocols and also its deployment without replacing data plane switches. In this survey, we review the SDN technology and the OpenFlow protocol and their related works. Specifically, we describe some technologies as Wireless Sensor Networks and Wireless Cellular Networks and how SDN can be included within them in order to solve their challenges. We classify different solutions for each technology attending to the problem that is being fixed. PB MDPI SN 1099-4300 YR 2018 FD 2018-03-26 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12679 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12679 LA eng NO Unión Europea. Horizonte 2020 DS Docta Complutense RD 20 jul 2024