OpenCAPWAP: an open-source CAPWAP implementation for management and QoS support

Author

Bernaschi, M. ; Cacace, F. ; Iannello, G. ; Vellucci, M. ; Vollero, L.

Author_Institution

Ist. Applicazioni del Calcolo-CNR, Rome

fYear

2008

fDate

13-15 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

77

Abstract

The Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol is under development within the IETF to enable an Access Controller (AC) to manage a collection of Wireless Termination Points (WTPs). CAPWAP aims at simplifying the deployment and control of large scale, possibly heterogeneous, wireless networks. We present the first open source implementation of the CAPWAP protocol along with early experimental results aiming at the assessment of its reliability and performances. The paper ends describing applications of the CAPWAP protocol to QoS scenarios and discussing benefits and technical issues.

Keywords

access protocols; computer network management; public domain software; quality of service; software architecture; telecommunication computing; wireless LAN; CAPWAP protocol; IEEE 802.11 network management; OpenCAPWAP implementation; QoS support; WLAN; WTP management; heterogeneous wireless networks; open-source implementation; software architecture; wireless termination points; Access protocols; Authentication; Communication system control; Communication system security; Large-scale systems; Open source software; Transport protocols; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunication Networking Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks, 2008. IT-NEWS 2008. 4th International

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1844-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1845-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNEWS.2008.4488132

Filename

4488132