OpenSDWN: Programmatic Control over Home and Enterprise WiFi

OpenSDWN: Programmatic Control over Home and Enterprise WiFi

Abstract

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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Authors
  • Schulz-Zander, Julius
  • Mayer, Carlos
  • Ciobotaru, Bogdan
  • Schmid, Stefan
  • Feldmann, Anja
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Category
Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Paper)
Event Title
ACM Sigcomm Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
Divisions
Communication Technologies
Subjects
Informatik Allgemeines
Event Location
Santa Clara, California, USA
Event Type
Conference
Event Dates
June 2015
Date
June 2015
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