Paper Info
Title
A Novel Multipath-Transmission Supported Software Defined Wireless Network Architecture.
Abstract
The inflexible management and operation of today's wireless access networks cannot meet the increasingly growing specific requirements, such as high mobility and throughput, service differentiation, and high-level programmability. In this paper, we put forward a novel multipath-transmission supported software-defined wireless network architecture (MP-SDWN), with the aim of achieving seamless handover, throughput enhancement, and flow-level wireless transmission control as well as programmable interfaces. In particular, this research addresses the following issues: 1) for high mobility and throughput, multiconnection virtual access point is proposed to enable multiple transmission paths simultaneously over a set of access points for users and 2) wireless flow transmission rules and programmable interfaces are implemented into mac80211 subsystem to enable service differentiation and flow-level wireless transmission control. Moreover, the efficiency and fl exibility of MP-SDWN are demonstrated in the performance evaluations conducted on a 802.11 based-testbed, and the experimental results show that compared to regular WiFi, our proposed MP-SDWN architecture achieves seamless handover and multifold throughput improvement, and supports flow-level wireless transmission control for different applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2653244
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software-defined networking,network function virtualization,multipath transmission,handover,virtual access point.
Fixed wireless,Service set,Wireless network,Wireless site survey,Wireless distribution system,Computer science,Computer network,Wireless WAN,Wi-Fi array,Throughput
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5
2169-3536
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
26
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chuan Xu114022.01
Wenqiang Jin250.48
Guofeng Zhao34112.33
huaglory tianfield442745.76
Shui Yu52365208.84
Youyang Qu67114.02