Paper Info
Title
SWIFT - Bringing SDN-Based Flow Management to Commodity Wi-Fi Access Pointes.
Abstract
Wi-Fi networks are largely served using over-the-counter commodity Wi-Fi routers, access points (APs), and possibly with wireless controllers. Existing approaches to bring the benefits of Software-defined Networking (SDN) to such Wi-Fi networks suffer from availability, hardware requirements, and scalability issues. For instance, these approaches do not support enterprise APs whose firmware cannot be modified. Furthermore, we observe that using SDN controllers for managing all the flows traversing these APs and routers requires more than just installing an SDN switch on these devices. In this paper, we present our solution called SWIFT: Software-defined Wi-Fi Flow Management, for bringing SDN-based flow management to Wi-Fi networks using commodity Wi-Fi APs, Wi-Fi routers, and Wi-Fi controllers. We also detail its benefits, shortcomings, and possible use cases. Specifically, our solution significantly lowers the barrier-to-entry for deploying and conducting research on software-defined Wi-Fi networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2018.8697022
Networking
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Network Management,SDN,Wi-Fi.
Conference
978-3-903176-08-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seppo Hätönen1233.66
Petri Savolainen21018.17
Ashwin Rao3155.07
Hannu Flinck441628.13
Sasu Tarkoma51312125.76