Systematic Review of Applying Service Oriented Architecture in Networking

Networking is the practice of communicating and data sharing among devices, through wired or wireless network, and it is playing a pivotal role in our daily life. In other words, Networking is essential for information exchange. However, along with all the benefits from networking technologies, comes various of new challenges, such as network management, network discovery and selection, etc. Due to the increasing demand of more efficient network management system, the concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has attracted networking professionals´ attention. SOA provides patterns for architecture, design, implementation of loosely coupled, distributed services regardless of underlying platform or implementation, thus, it is believed to be appropriate to be applied to build a more efficient network management system. This study is motivated by the increasingly popularity of SOA in the networking discipline. In this study, a systematic review of academic papers from IEEE Explore regarding this topic is presented, current state of the application of SOA for networking is highlighted, research efforts in related area are discussed. The study concludes with a suggested future research agenda.