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Citations
19645
World Ranking
7744
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For his work creating the movement of Software Defined Networking (SDN), a new paradigm in the research and practice of computer networking that provides a software alternative to hardware-based network components.

Overview

Martin Casado is affiliated with DELL in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, particularly in areas concerning computer networks and communications as well as information systems. Within these fields, Casado's work includes topics such as IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, blockchain technology applications and security, cloud computing and resource management, and distributed and parallel computing systems.

Casado has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • Cloud Infrastructure Management in the Age of AI Agents, 2025, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • GoEX: Perspectives and Designs Towards a Runtime for Autonomous LLM Applications, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cloud Infrastructure Management in the Age of AI Agents, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent coauthors include Zhenning Yang, Archit Bhatnagar, Yiming Qiu, T. Miao, and Patrick Tser Jern Kon. These collaborations have resulted in multiple publications across several venues, with a concentration in arXiv (Cornell University) and the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

A significant recognition in Casado's career is the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, received in 2012. The award citation highlights their work in creating the movement of Software Defined Networking (SDN), which introduced a software-based alternative to traditional hardware network components.

Best Publications

  • NOX: towards an operating system for networks

    Natasha Gude;Teemu Koponen;Justin Pettit;Ben Pfaff

  • Onix: a distributed control platform for large-scale production networks

    Teemu Koponen;Martin Casado;Natasha Gude;Jeremy Stribling

  • Ethane: taking control of the enterprise

    Martin Casado;Michael J. Freedman;Justin Pettit;Jianying Luo

  • The design and implementation of open vSwitch

    Ben Pfaff;Justin Pettit;Teemu Koponen;Ethan J. Jackson

  • FlowVisor: A Network Virtualization Layer

    Rob Sherwood;Glen Gibb;Kok-Kiong Yap;Guido Appenzeller

  • Extending Networking into the Virtualization Layer.

    Ben Pfaff;Justin Pettit;Keith Amidon;Martín Casado

  • Managing a network by controlling edge switching elements; using standard interior switches

    Teemu Koponen;Martin Casado

  • On controller performance in software-defined networks

    Amin Tootoonchian;Sergey Gorbunov;Yashar Ganjali;Martin Casado

  • SANE: a protection architecture for enterprise networks

    Martin Casado;Tal Garfinkel;Aditya Akella;Michael J. Freedman

  • Can the production network be the testbed

    Rob Sherwood;Glen Gibb;Kok-Kiong Yap;Guido Appenzeller

  • Network virtualization in multi-tenant datacenters

    Teemu Koponen;Keith Amidon;Peter Balland;Martín Casado

  • Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switches

    Martin Casado;Paul S. Ingram;Keith Eric Amidon;Peter J. Balland

  • Applying NOX to the Datacenter.

    Arsalan Tavakoli;Martín Casado;Teemu Koponen;Scott Shenker

  • Method and apparatus for implementing and managing distributed virtual switches in several hosts and physical forwarding elements

    Martin Casado;Paul Ingram;Keith Eric Amidon;Peter J. Balland

  • Practical declarative network management

    Timothy L. Hinrichs;Natasha S. Gude;Martin Casado;John C. Mitchell

  • Virtualizing the network forwarding plane

    Martín Casado;Teemu Koponen;Rajiv Ramanathan;Scott Shenker

  • Secure network switching infrastructure

    Martin Casado;Nick Mckeown;Dan Boneh;Michael J. Freedman

  • Fabric: a retrospective on evolving SDN

    Martin Casado;Teemu Koponen;Scott Shenker;Amin Tootoonchian

  • Network operating system for managing and securing networks

    Martin Casado;Scott Shenker;Keith Eric Amidon;Peter J. Balland

  • Software-defined internet architecture: decoupling architecture from infrastructure

    Barath Raghavan;Martín Casado;Teemu Koponen;Sylvia Ratnasamy

Frequent Co-Authors

Teemu Koponen
Teemu Koponen DELL (United States)
Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley
Nick McKeown
Nick McKeown Stanford University
Michael J. Freedman
Michael J. Freedman Princeton University
Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh Stanford University
Aditya Akella
Aditya Akella The University of Texas at Austin
Vern Paxson
Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley
Sylvia Ratnasamy
Sylvia Ratnasamy University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Rexford
Jennifer Rexford Princeton University

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