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CloudMAC: towards software defined WLANs

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Traditional enterprise WLAN management systems are hard to extend and require powerful access points (APs). In this paper we introduce and evaluate CloudMAC, an architecture for enterprise WLANs in which MAC frames are generated and processed on virtual APs hosted in a datacenter. The APs only need to forward MAC frames. The APs and the servers are connected via an OpenFlow-enabled network, which allows to control where and how MAC frames are transmitted.

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cover image ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review  Volume 16, Issue 4
October 2012
64 pages
ISSN:1559-1662
EISSN:1931-1222
DOI:10.1145/2436196
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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 04 February 2013
Published in SIGMOBILE Volume 16, Issue 4

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