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Networking Self-Teaching Guide: OSI, TCP/IP, LANs, MANs, WANs, Implementation, Management, and Maintenance. (n.d.). Retrieved October 17, 2023, from https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/networking-self-teaching-guide/9780470402382/
This O’Reilly resource provides in-depth details on all network concepts throughout the course.

David, O., Thornley, P., & Bagheri, M. (2023). Software defined networking (SDN) for campus networks, WAN, and datacenter. 2023 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets),1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartNets58706.2023.10215722
The authors addressed the growing complexity of networks and how SDNs can assist in the normalization.

Lu, P., Yan, Z., Yi, L., Zhu, J., & Zhu, Z. (2021). Resilient control plane design for inter-datacenter cloud network with various attacks. 2021 7th International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC), Computer and Communications (ICCC),1463–1468. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCC54389.2021.9674273
The author discuss the advantages of SDNs, but also raised the issue of Control Planes (CPs) that still need re-architecture.

Duan, C., Peng, W., & Wang, B. (2022). GLIB: A global and local integrated load balancing scheme for datacenter network. 2022 14th International Conference on Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN), Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN), 166–173. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSN55126.2022.9817572\
The authors provide a good narrative on the role of load balancers on the network and their impact on resource utilization and overall performance.