OpenFlow–Based Load Balancing for Wireless Mesh Network.

OpenFlow–Based Load Balancing for Wireless Mesh Network.

Yang, Hanjie

Cloud Computing and Security: First International Conference,

2016

Chen, Bing

Fu, Ping

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Wireless mesh network (WMN), an emerging network which is the pivotal technology for the next generation networks, is intended to provide reliable data transmission at low cost and high throughput. Load balancing is an essential problem, which affects the performance of the network. OpenFlow, an emerging technology, can effectively monitor and manage the network topology as well as network traffic, via the separation of the data layer and the control layer. This paper proposed an OpenFlow-based WMN and a channel related solution to solve the load balance. Control of each node dynamically changes while the network traffic changes, and the channel allocation along with the establishing of data paths will be promptly adjusted. We have built our WMN testbed with OpenFlow-based wireless mesh nodes. We carried out some experiments to evaluate our solution. Our experiments confirm that OpenFlow sets a good technology to solve wireless mesh network load imbalance.