Ethanol: Software defined networking for 802.11 Wireless Networks

Author

Moura, Henrique ; Bessa, Gabriel V. C. ; Vieira, Marcos A. M. ; Macedo, Daniel F.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

fYear

2015

fDate

11-15 May 2015

Firstpage

388

Lastpage

396

Abstract

Wireless Networks have become ubiquitous and dense to support the growing demand from mobile users. To improve the performance of these networks, new approaches are required, such as context and service aware control algorithms, which are not possible on today´s closed proprietary WLAN controllers. In this work, we propose Ethanol, a software-defined networking architecture for 802.11 dense WLANs. This paper describes the benefits of programmable APs, and proposes Ethanol, an architecture for network-wide control of QoS, user mobility, AP virtualization, and security on 802.11 APs. The proposal is evaluated on a prototype using off-the-shelf APs over three use cases.

Keywords

computer network security; mobile computing; quality of service; software defined networking; virtualisation; wireless LAN; 802.11 APs; 802.11 dense WLANs; 802.11 wireless networks; AP virtualization; Ethanol; closed proprietary WLAN controllers; context aware control algorithms; network-wide QoS control; programmable APs; security; service aware control algorithms; software defined networking; user mobility; Communication system security; Computer architecture; Ethanol; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Quality of service; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Network Management (IM), 2015 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INM.2015.7140315

Filename

7140315