No way back? An SDN protocol for directed IoT networks

No way back? An SDN protocol for directed IoT networks

Cerqueira Afonso Alves, Renan (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Borges Margi, Cintia (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Kuipers, F.A. (TU Delft Embedded and Networked Systems)

2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) has and will continue to permeate many aspects of everyday life. However, IoT de- vices often use wireless communication to transfer their data, which may experience ambient noise and multipath fading. This, together with the wide heterogeneity in types of devices, leads to the emergence of unidirectional links in IoT networks. Surprisingly, many routing protocols for wireless networks either do not account for such links or employ radical mechanisms, like blacklisting. In this paper, we leverage the features of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to develop a network discovery algorithm that is able to cope with unidirectional links, while containing the control overhead. We provide a proof-of-concept implementation of an SDN protocol for constrained devices that uses our algorithm and perform experiments. The experiment results show that our solution is scalable and performs well both for unidirectional links as well as for fully bidirectional networks.

Software-Defined Networking
Unidirectional Links
Wireless Sensor Networks

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:65b19cd4-9776-412f-99ac-a8efce1b6fd3

https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS.2019.8795491

978-3-903176-13-3

2019 15th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2019 - Proceedings

15th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference, 2019-01-22 → 2019-01-24, Wengen, Switzerland

2019 15th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2019 - Proceedings

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© 2019 Renan Cerqueira Afonso Alves, Cintia Borges Margi, F.A. Kuipers