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SDN-TSCH: Enabling Software Defined Networking for Scheduled Wireless Networks with Traffic Isolation
Document Type
Conference
Source
2022 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2022 IEEE Symposium on. :1-7 Jun, 2022
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Computers
Schedules
Computer network reliability
Wireless networks
Process control
Radio links
Software reliability
Industrial Internet of Things
Software-Defined Networking
scheduling
dedicated control plane
flow isolation
Language
ISSN
2642-7389
Abstract
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications need to rely on a wireless infrastructure able to provide low end-to-end latency, and high reliability. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is promising to make the network more agile, pushing the decision process to a controller. However, radio links are unstable while the controller needs to construct an accurate view of the network to schedule the transmissions efficiently. We propose here SDN-TSCH to separate the data and control planes for a scheduled network. We construct a reliable control plane, maintaining a collision-free path to and from the controller. Besides, SDN-TSCH guarantees flow isolation: each flow can reserve dedicated resources so that end-to-end reliability and latency constraints can be respected per flow. Finally, we also dedicate resources for best-effort traffic, to accommodate various applications. Our Cooja simulations highlight the flow isolation characteristics of SDN-TSCH: we provide very high reliability even in presence of best-effort traffic.