Earlier research work includes:
Christopher Monsanto, Joshua Reich, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, and
David Walker,
"Composing Software-Defined Networks," in
Proc. Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2013.
(See NSDI'13 slides and video.
See DIMACS slides,
December 2012.) Winner of the "Community Award" at NSDI'13.
You can download the
source code and a packaged VM.
See Aditya Akella's public summary, and Layer9 blog postings
on "A report on NSDI'13: Composing Software Defined Networks",
"SDN confusion",
and "Is software defined networking really just OpenFlow".
Dmitry Drutskoy, Eric Keller, and Jennifer Rexford,
"Scalable network virtualization
in software-defined networks," in IEEE Internet Computing,
March/April 2013.
Pamela Zave and Jennifer Rexford,
"The design space of network mobility"
(revisions pending), draft chapter for SIGCOMM eBook on Recent Advances in
Networking, April 2013.
Pamela Zave and Jennifer Rexford,
"The geomorphic view of networking: A
network model and its uses,"
in Proc. Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet
Computing, December 2012.