Title
Demo: programming enterprise WLANs with odin
Abstract
We present a demo of Odin, an SDN framework to program enterprise wireless local area networks (WLANs). Enterprise WLANs need to support a wide range of services and functionalities. This includes authentication, authorization and accounting, policy, mobility and interference management, and load balancing. WLANs also exhibit unique challenges. In particular, access point (AP) association decisions are not made by the infrastructure, but by clients. In addition, the association state machine combined with the broadcast nature of the wireless medium requires keeping track of a large amount of state changes. To this end, Odin builds on a light virtual AP abstraction that greatly simplifies client management. Odin does not require any client side modifications and its design supports WPA2 Enterprise. With Odin, a network operator can implement enterprise WLAN services as network applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2342356.2342409
SIGCOMM
Keywords
Field
DocType
load balance,state machine,sdn,wireless local area network
Client-side,Broadcasting,Authentication,Abstraction,Wireless,Load balancing (computing),Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Finite-state machine,Local area network,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
42
4
0146-4833
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.45
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Lalith Suresh121814.95
Julius Schulz-Zander224415.34
Ruben Merz329523.65
Anja Feldmann44935596.02