Research directions in this area are as follows:

• Development of algorithms and tools for reliability, fault tolerance and high availability of SDN distributed control platform; development of recovery algorithms for controller failure, control channel failure and inter-controller connection loss.
• Analysis of distributed transactions algorithms, development of controller state synchronization algorithms, voter and leader election algorithms.
• Development of methods for predicting load and ensuring load balancing between SDN controllers
• Development and research on the application of artificial intelligence methods for the management and configuration of the distributed control plane for SDN networks.
• Development of methods for detecting and countering DDoS attacks on the distributed control plane.

Publications:

1. Pashkov V., Shalimov A., Smeliansky R. Controller Failover for SDN Enterprise Networks
2. Пашков В.Н., Смелянский Р.Л. Метод выбора конфигурации распределенной платформы управления высокой готовности для транспортных программно-конфигурируемых сетей