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A Software Defined Networking Approach for Guaranteeing Delay in Wi-Fi Networks

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Do Thi Thu Hien,

Kien NguyenAuthors Info & Claims

SoICT '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology

Pages 191 - 196

https://doi.org/10.1145/3368926.3369710

Published: 04 December 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Recently, low latency has become one of the most critical requirements in Wi-Fi networks (e.g., for Internet access). Many factors and events such as bufferbloat, which unexpectedly happen, can affect the delay of Wi-Fi networks. Hence, the delay requirement leads to the essential of a management mechanism, which can 1) correctly detect negative behavior in latency; 2) and adjust network settings adaptively. In this paper, we introduce a solution for the two mentioned issues, which uses the emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology. Our SDN-based method can guarantee a predetermined value of delay in the Wi-Fi network by taking advantage of SDN. More specifics, we correctly monitor the delay fluctuation in Wi-Fi networks on an SDN controller. We then deploy a task of queue adjustment when the delay value exceeds the predetermined one. We have developed and evaluated our method using the mininet-wifi emulator and POX controller. The results show that we can maintain the guaranteed delay level for packet transmissions without significant effects on network performance.

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A Software Defined Networking Approach for Guaranteeing Delay in Wi-Fi Networks
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network performance analysis
  2. Network properties
    1. Network reliability

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SoICT 2019: The Tenth International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology

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