The increasing demand for multimedia content and for live broadcasting is bringing renewed interest in multicast applications. In many cases, users access such streams using Wi-Fi networks. However, multicast over Wi-Fi poses several challenges including low-data rates and coexistence issues with regard to other unicast streams. Software Defined Networking (SDN) has recently emerged as a novel approach to network control and management. In this paper we present SDN@Play, a novel SDN-based solution for multicast rate-adaptation in Wi-Fi networks. The solution builds upon a new abstraction, named Transmission Policy which allows the SDN controller to reconfigure or replace a certain rate control policy if its optimal operating conditions are not met. An experimental evaluation carried out over a real-world testbed shows that this approach can deliver an improvement of up to 80% in terms of channel utilization compared to legacy 802.11 multicast. We release the entire implementation including the controller and the data-path under a permissive license for academic use.

Programming Abstractions for Wireless Multicasting in Software-Defined Enterprise WLANs / Coronado, Estefanía; Riggio, Roberto; Villalón, José; Garrido, Antonio. - ELETTRONICO. - (2017). (Intervento presentato al convegno IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM) tenutosi a Lisbon, Portugal nel 8-12 May 2017) [10.23919/INM.2017.7987288].

Programming Abstractions for Wireless Multicasting in Software-Defined Enterprise WLANs

Roberto Riggio;
2017-01-01

Abstract

The increasing demand for multimedia content and for live broadcasting is bringing renewed interest in multicast applications. In many cases, users access such streams using Wi-Fi networks. However, multicast over Wi-Fi poses several challenges including low-data rates and coexistence issues with regard to other unicast streams. Software Defined Networking (SDN) has recently emerged as a novel approach to network control and management. In this paper we present SDN@Play, a novel SDN-based solution for multicast rate-adaptation in Wi-Fi networks. The solution builds upon a new abstraction, named Transmission Policy which allows the SDN controller to reconfigure or replace a certain rate control policy if its optimal operating conditions are not met. An experimental evaluation carried out over a real-world testbed shows that this approach can deliver an improvement of up to 80% in terms of channel utilization compared to legacy 802.11 multicast. We release the entire implementation including the controller and the data-path under a permissive license for academic use.
2017
978-3-901882-89-0
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