A novel multipath-transmission supported software defined wireless network architecture

Chuan Xu, Wenqiang Jin, Guofeng Zhao, Huaglory Tianfield, Shui Yu, Youyang Qu

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    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, multi-connection 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 flexibility 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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)2111-2125
    Number of pages15
    JournalIEEE Access
    Volume5
    Issue number99
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 17 Jan 2017

    Keywords

    • software-defined networking
    • network function virtualization
    • multipath transmission
    • handover
    • virtual access point

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