Analysis of software defined wireless network with IP mobility in multiple controllers domain

Abstract

Software Defined Networking (SDN) approach is a generalized concept that de-couples software plane from the hardware plane of a network. SDN can be an alternative to well-defined protocol stack, scalability, and full resource management capabilities. SDN for wireless environment became a popular research field for future deployment. Therefore, performance issues of Software Defined Wireless Networking (SDWN) have become important in order to study and analyze the underlying network design, scope, and capabilities. This research work represents the performance analysis of SDWN for multiple domains and inter-controller communication. Integration of IP mobility with the Mobile Nodes (MN) affects TCP throughput, bandwidth, transmission jitter and latency of underlying SDWN. This paper concludes that SDWN has both integrated performance in efficient handoff through IP mobility solution and somewhere penalties as well in terms of inter-controller communication. In the end, a comparative study with distributed mobility solutions is performed against an IP based model.