TY - GEN
T1 - Towards effective intra-flow network coding in software defined wireless mesh networks
AU - Zhu, Donghai
AU - Yang, Xinyu
AU - Zhao, Peng
AU - Yu, Wei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/2
Y1 - 2015/10/2
N2 - Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have potential to provide convenient broadband wireless Internet access to mobile users. With the emergence of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm that separates control plane and data plane, WMNs can be easily deployed and managed. In addition, by exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless medium and the spatial diversity of multi-hop wireless networks, intra-flow network coding has shown a greater benefit in comparison with traditional routing paradigms in data transmission for WMNs. In this paper, we develop a novel OpenCoding protocol, which combines the SDN technique with intra-flow network coding for WMNs. Our developed protocol can simplify the deployment and management of the network and improve network performance. In OpenCoding, a controller working on the control plane makes routing decisions for mesh routers and the hop-by-hop forwarding function is replaced by network coding functions in data plane. Through a simulation study, we show the effectiveness of the OpenCoding protocol in comparison with existing schemes. Our data shows that OpenCoding outperforms both traditional routing and intra-flow network coding schemes.
AB - Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have potential to provide convenient broadband wireless Internet access to mobile users. With the emergence of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm that separates control plane and data plane, WMNs can be easily deployed and managed. In addition, by exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless medium and the spatial diversity of multi-hop wireless networks, intra-flow network coding has shown a greater benefit in comparison with traditional routing paradigms in data transmission for WMNs. In this paper, we develop a novel OpenCoding protocol, which combines the SDN technique with intra-flow network coding for WMNs. Our developed protocol can simplify the deployment and management of the network and improve network performance. In OpenCoding, a controller working on the control plane makes routing decisions for mesh routers and the hop-by-hop forwarding function is replaced by network coding functions in data plane. Through a simulation study, we show the effectiveness of the OpenCoding protocol in comparison with existing schemes. Our data shows that OpenCoding outperforms both traditional routing and intra-flow network coding schemes.
KW - Intra-flow network coding
KW - Software defined networking
KW - Wireless mesh network
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84959331558
U2 - 10.1109/ICCCN.2015.7288480
DO - 10.1109/ICCCN.2015.7288480
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:84959331558
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
BT - 24th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 24th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2015
Y2 - 3 August 2015 through 6 August 2015
ER -