Software-defined wireless mesh networks: Architecture and traffic orchestration

Huawei Huang; Peng Li; Song Guo; Weihua Zhuang

doi:10.1109/MNET.2015.7166187

Software-defined wireless mesh networks: Architecture and traffic orchestration

Huawei Huang, Peng Li, Song Guo, Weihua Zhuang

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Abstract

SDN has been envisioned as the next generation network paradigm by decoupling control plane and data plane, such that network management and optimization can be conducted in a centralized manner using global network information. In this article, we study how to apply SDN concept to a wireless mesh network that has been widely adopted by various applications. We first propose a novel architecture of SD-WMNs, and identify several critical challenges. Since wireless spectrum is a scarce resource that is shared by both data and control traffic in SD-WMNs, we propose three spectrum allocation and scheduling algorithms, namely FB-NS, NFB-NS, and NFB-S that orchestrate both control and data traffic. Finally, performance is evaluated via extensive simulations.

Original language	English
Article number	7166187
Pages (from-to)	24-30
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Network
Volume	29
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2015.7166187
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Software
Information Systems
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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