Everything about Open vSwitch

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Open vSwitchA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Scaling by Learning: Accelerating Open vSwitch Data Path With Neural NetworksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: OpenStack essentialsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Throughput and Latency of Virtual Switching with Open vSwitch: A Quantitative AnalysisCited 48 times
5. Go sideways: Data Plane Development KitA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: VXLANA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Throughput and Latency of Virtual Switching with Open vSwitch: A Quantitative Analysis

  Paul Emmerich, Daniel Raumer, Sebastian Gallenmüller · 2017 · Journal of Network and Systems Management · 48 citations

• Building an Extensible Open vSwitch Datapath

  Cheng-Chun Tu, Joe Stringer, Justin Pettit · 2017 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 23 citations

• OVS-CAB: Efficient rule-caching for Open vSwitch hardware offloading

  Peixuan Gao, Yang Xu, H. Jonathan Chao · 2021 · Computer Networks · 15 citations

• Building SDN-Based Agricultural Vehicular Sensor Networks Based on Extended Open vSwitch

  Tao Huang, Siyu Yan, Fan Yang · 2016 · Sensors · 15 citations

• A Runtime-Enabled P4 Extension to the Open vSwitch Packet Processing Pipeline

  Tomasz Osinski, Halina Tarasiuk, Paul Chaignon · 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 12 citations

• Intelligent queue management of open vSwitch in multi-tenant data center

  Huihui Ma, Xuanhao Luo, Du Xu · 2023 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 11 citations

• Performance Modeling of Linux Network System with Open vSwitch

  Runkai Yang, Xiaolin Chang, Jelena Mišić · 2019 · Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications · 5 citations

• Performance Evaluation of DPDK Open vSwitch with Parallelization Feature on Multi-Core Platform

  Key Lab of Beijing Network Technology, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, Guanchao Sun, Wei Li · 2018 · Journal of Communications · 4 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Scaling by Learning: Accelerating Open vSwitch Data Path With Neural Networks

  Alon Rashelbach, Ori Rottenstreich, Mark Silberstein · 2023 · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking · 3 citations

• Automation of Open VSwitch-Based Virtual Network Configuration Using Ansible on Proxmox Virtual Environment

  Khairan Marzuki, Muhammad Idham Kholid, I Putu Hariyadi · 2023 · International Journal of Electronics and Communications Systems · 2 citations

• LQR-Based CPU Traffic Regulation for Multi-Tenant Open vSwitch with XDP Actuation

  Stefan Biševac, Živko Bojović, Petar D. Bojović · 2026 · Future Internet · 1 citations

• Design and Implementation of SDN Firewall Using Pox Controller and Open vSwitch

  Eka Stephani Sinambela, Jesika L Manurung, Grace Agnes Kesya · 2026 · Indonesian Journal of Applied Informatics · 0 citations

• Otomatisasi Konfigurasi VLAN pada Open vSwitch Menggunakan Python Scripting dalam Lingkungan Simulasi GNS3

  Febrianta Immanuel Purba, Deddy Kiswanto, M Farel Revansha Buulolo · 2026 · Journal of Education Technology Information Social Sciences and Health · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• OpenStack essentialsDan Radez · 2015
• SDN, Openflow, and Open VSwitchThomas F. Herbert · 2014
• 📕Practical Guide to Software Defined Networking Using Open VSwitchSachin Sharma · 2023

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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