The necessity of a flexible, scalable, faster and
programmable network to offer new services is challenging to
telecommunication operators. These characteristics along with
robustness and availability are essential in order to guarantee
a Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)
in the users. Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged
as a natural solution to this situation as
... [Show full abstract] it enables network
programmability. The use of Data Distribution Service (DDS) is
studied in order to achieve robust and efficient SDN controller
federations. In this paper, we deploy a 5G scenario with SDN
controllers and analyze the role of DDS to improve the controller's
performance. Illustrative results demonstrate an enhanced performance in determining when a controller fails.