Research Article
An SDN and CPS Based Opportunistic Upload Splitting for Mobile Users
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_6, author={Maurizio Casoni and Carlo Grazia and Martin Klapez}, title={An SDN and CPS Based Opportunistic Upload Splitting for Mobile Users}, proceedings={Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. Second International Summit, IoT 360° 2015, Rome, Italy, October 27-29, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part I}, proceedings_a={IOT360}, year={2017}, month={1}, keywords={Collaborative networks CPS MCC SDN}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_6} }- Maurizio Casoni
Carlo Grazia
Martin Klapez
Year: 2017
An SDN and CPS Based Opportunistic Upload Splitting for Mobile Users
IOT360
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_6
Abstract
This paper proposes an hybrid approach composed by Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) to boost the upload speed of mobile users in low-bandwidth environments through a next generation Mobile Collaborative Community (MCC). The core idea is to use a high-bandwidth local communication system, like IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), in order to distribute data efficiently through mobile hosts; then, the distributed data may be sent from each mobile node to the original destination through their low-bandwidth mobile interface for wide area network communication. With our solution some drawbacks of MCC are faced. With the use of SDN we defined a flexible and easy-to-configure MCC system which operates in a transparent way for the end hosts. At the same time, the use of CPS creates a feedback for the system regarding the hosts channel status; this way the system is able to fully exploit the MCC potential by increasing the upload speed for both congested and non-congested scenarios. We demonstrate the efficiency of our solution through experimental results obtained using the Mininet network emulator where POX and a Pyretic controller serve as a dynamic data repartition engine.
