over 30 research articles in various reputed National/International conference/journals. Downloaded 4/15/2022 9:44:49 AM Nova Southeastern University IP Address: 137.52.76.29 Index 260, 268, 272, 279, 290, 292, 296, 303 controllers 10, 27, 42, 53-56, 68, 70, 72-73, ACI Controller 148 85-90, 96, 100-101, 103-114, 119, APIC 127, 130-133, 135-138, 141, 143, 146 121-124, 126-127, 129-130, 132, APIC-Enterprise Module 148 146, 167, 169, 173, 227, 241-242, APPLICATION CENTRIC 255, 260, 262 INFRASTRUCTURE 130-132, 135, Application Programming Infrastructure Controller 148 data plane 1-2, 8, 14, 25, 27, 37, 46, 73-74, Application-Centric Infrastructure 148 79, 86, 98, 100-101, 104, 127-129, authentication 85, 109, 139, 220 140, 195, 241-242,244-245, 268, 272, 279, 290, 292, 304 DDoS 86, 109, 217-219, 222, 224-227, 237 denial of service 217-218, 220, 222, 239 Base Station (BS) 243, 252 Differentiated Service 215 battery 246, 252, 255 Distributed Denial of Service 217-218, BSD 150, 173 222, 239 DMVPN 144 DoS 85-86, 109, 218, 220, 222-225 Dynamic Multipoint VPN 144, 148 CDN 18, 27, 51 Class of Service 204, 215 CLI 79, 142-143, 150, 155, 163, 165-166, 173, 187 Elastic services controller 183, 193 cloud computing 1, 3, 13, 22, 252, 271- entropy 225-228, 233, 235, 237, 239 272, 289 ESC 182-183, 193 Cluster Head (CH) 241, 252 control plane 1-2, 4-5, 8, 14, 25, 46, 68, 73-74,78-79, 85-86, 88-89, 101-102, 104, 112, 127-129, 169, 174, 195-196, Flood light 101, 123, 305 217,232,241-242, 245-246, 253, 258, flooding 81, 218, 222-224, 239 Downloaded 4/15/2022 9:44:49 AM Nova Southeastern University IP Address: 137.52.76.29 Index 175-184, 191-194 NFV Infrastructure 18, 180-181, 193 GeoPlex 293, 305 NFV Management and Organization 194 NFVI 18-19, 29, 31, 44, 180-182 northbound APIs 127, 141, 143, 146 NOX 90-91, 94-95, 101, 113-117, 126, 303 hardware 1, 3-4, 13-15, 18-19, 27-29, 31, 37, 40, 49, 51-52, 60, 62, 70, 73-74, 76, 81-84, 89, 96-98, 102, 104, 109, 124, 126-127, 132-133, 140, 142, 144, Object Storage 276, 290 156, 175, 177-181, 18