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Wi-Fi technologies have attracted great attention due to the low cost of construction and maintenance. However, the explosive growth of mobile applications bring new challenges in terms of difficult service quality requirement, such as ultra bandwidth, seamless mobility and high reliability. In this paper, we propose an efficient SDN-based architecture for Wi-Fi networks, which can exploit MPTCP to enable simultaneously transmission for a specific application, and achieve fine-grade path assignment for a single subflow. To evaluate our design, we build a real-world testbed that consists of commodity AP devices, the experimental results demonstrate that our system can significantly improve the wireless throughput and reduce handover delay at the same time.
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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61672486), subtask of the Chinese National Key Project on New Generation Broadband Wireless Mobile Communication Networks (No. 2017ZX03001019-004), and Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 1608085MF126).
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Liu, L., Li, M., Mei, L., Tian, Y. (2019). Design and Implementation of a Novel SDN-Based Architecture for Wi-Fi Networks. In: Park, J., Shen, H., Sung, Y., Tian, H. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies. PDCAT 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 931. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5907-1_4
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