@techreport{penno-pcp-asdn-00, number = {draft-penno-pcp-asdn-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-penno-pcp-asdn/00/}, author = {Reinaldo Penno and Tirumaleswar Reddy.K and Mohamed Boucadair and Dan Wing and Suresh Vinapamula}, title = {{Application Enabled SDN (A-SDN)}}, pagetotal = 12, year = 2013, month = sep, day = 29, abstract = {To allow traversal of firewalls or provide additional network services such as QoS or supplemental bandwidth, it is necessary to deploy application-aware network elements. Such network elements are costly to create, deploy, and are unable to adequately cope with changes to the application itself, stifling innovation. This document describes a different approach, where the application explicitly signals its needs to the network.}, }