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OpenSDWN: programmatic control over home and enterprise WiFi

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Julius Schulz-Zander,

Carlos Mayer,

Bogdan Ciobotaru,

Stefan Schmid,

Anja FeldmannAuthors Info & Claims

SOSR '15: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research

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The quickly growing demand for wireless networks and the numerous application-specific requirements stand in stark contrast to today's inflexible management and operation of WiFi networks. In this paper, we present and evaluate OpenSDWN, a novel WiFi architecture based on an SDN/NFV approach. OpenSDWN exploits datapath programmability to enable service differentiation and fine-grained transmission control, facilitating the prioritization of critical applications. OpenSDWN implements per-client virtual access points and per-client virtual middleboxes, to render network functions more flexible and support mobility and seamless migration. OpenSDWN can also be used to out-source the control over the home network to a participatory interface or to an Internet Service Provider.

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Software-defined networking (SDN) is a new paradigm that allows network switches to provide a per-flow data path to satisfy an application-specific purpose. Since the data path is open to modification by an application, the current standard SDN protocol is called OpenFlow. OpenSDWN is a platform for extending the SDN to Wi-Fi to control Wi-Fi characteristics as well as the data path. There have been several studies on controllable Wi-Fi, because a wireless channel is a valuable resource and there is a need to increase its performance. Compared to other approaches, an SDN-based approach has advantages, including exploiting existing SDNs and network function virtualization (NFV) and compatibility with today's Wi-Fi media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications. A main contribution of this paper is its presentation of a platform that facilitates the easy handling and migration of per-client state by unifying the SDN and NFV. It also allows per-flow transmission setting based on packet classification and tagging technology. A participatory interface is also provided to allow applications to request an application-specific network policy. Through evaluation, the authors show several benefits of OpenSDWN. OpenSDWN allows: (1) a specific flow to have priority; (2) direct multicast service (DMS) without a client signaling; and (3) user mobility without reinstallation of per-client state. The detailed implementation description in the paper will be helpful to interested readers. Since a wireless channel is shared among nearby users, changing Wi-Fi characteristics can cause unexpected results. For example, transmission power reduction for a flow can result in information asymmetry among neighbor nodes, which can increase the number of hidden terminals. Thus, experiments in various environments are necessary. Online Computing Reviews Service

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