%% You should probably cite draft-pan-sdn-dc-problem-statement-and-use-cases-02 instead of this revision. @techreport{pan-sdn-dc-problem-statement-and-use-cases-01, number = {draft-pan-sdn-dc-problem-statement-and-use-cases-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pan-sdn-dc-problem-statement-and-use-cases/01/}, author = {Ping Pan and Thomas Nadeau}, title = {{Software-Defined Network (SDN) Problem Statement and Use Cases for Data Center Applications}}, pagetotal = 12, year = , month = , day = , abstract = {Service providers and enterprises are increasingly offering services and applications from data centers. Subsequently, data centers originate significant amount of network traffic. Without proper network provisioning, user applications and services are subject to congestion and delay. In this document, we argue the necessity in providing network information to the applications, and thereby enabling the applications to directly provision network edge devices and relevant applications.}, }