Exploiting Wireless Links Diversity in Software-Defined IEEE 802.11 Enterprise Wlan

Adoption of wireless technologies is rising dramatically. As traffic load is continuously rising with the rapid growth of user scale and mobile services, today's Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) enterprise is facing a series of crucial challenges such as packet loss, interference, poor bandwi...

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Published in:IEEE Global Communications Conference (Online) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors: Monir, Md Fahad, Granelli, Fabrizio
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.12.2020
Subjects:
IEEE 802.11 Standard
network performance
Programming
programming abstractions
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Software Defined Wireless Networks (SDWN)
Throughput
Uplink
Wireless communication
Wireless fidelity
Wireless networks
WLANs
ISSN:2576-6813
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Summary:Adoption of wireless technologies is rising dramatically. As traffic load is continuously rising with the rapid growth of user scale and mobile services, today's Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) enterprise is facing a series of crucial challenges such as packet loss, interference, poor bandwidth etc. This is because of the inherent design of the IEEE 802.11 architecture. Enabling Software Defined Networking (SDN) in Wi-Fi enterprise would solve the puzzle of current WLAN technology limitations and ensure high scalability and performance. While standardization is focusing on performance enhancement by evolving the Wi-Fi MAC/PHY protocols, in this work we focus on bandwidth optimization in IEEE 802.11 by using Software Defined Networking (SDN). We analyze various programming abstractions for WLANs and exploit the wireless link diversity in Software Defined Enterprise-WLAN with the support of the 5GEMPOWER-SDN platform. A multiple uplink mechanism between user devices and Access Points (APs) is proposed that allows a remarkable performance improvement in the network in terms of throughput and packet delivery ratio.
ISSN:2576-6813
DOI:10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322469