TY - GEN
T1 - Enabling dynamic reconfigurability of SDRs using SDN principles
AU - Shome, Prithviraj
AU - Modares, Jalil
AU - Mastronarde, Nicholas
AU - Sprintson, Alex
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Dynamic reconfiguration and network programmability are active research areas. State of the art solutions use the Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm to provide basic data plane abstractions and programming interfaces for control and management of these abstractions; however, SDN technologies are currently limited to wired networks and do not provide the appropriate abstractions to support ever changing wireless protocols. On the other hand, the Software Defined Radio (SDR) paradigm enables complex signal processing functionality to be implemented efficiently in software, instead of on specialized hardware; however, SDR does not cater to the demand for adaptive radio network management with respect to changing channel conditions and policies. To overcome these limitations, we present CrossFlow, a principled approach for application development in SDR networks. CrossFlow defines fundamental radio port abstractions and an interface to manipulate them. It provides a flexible and modular cross-layer architecture using the principles of SDR and a mechanism for centralized control using the principles of SDN. Through the convergence of SDN and SDR, Cross- Flow works towards providing a target independent framework for application development in wireless radio networks. We validate our design using proof-of-concept applications, namely, adaptive modulation, frequency hopping, and cognitive radio.
AB - Dynamic reconfiguration and network programmability are active research areas. State of the art solutions use the Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm to provide basic data plane abstractions and programming interfaces for control and management of these abstractions; however, SDN technologies are currently limited to wired networks and do not provide the appropriate abstractions to support ever changing wireless protocols. On the other hand, the Software Defined Radio (SDR) paradigm enables complex signal processing functionality to be implemented efficiently in software, instead of on specialized hardware; however, SDR does not cater to the demand for adaptive radio network management with respect to changing channel conditions and policies. To overcome these limitations, we present CrossFlow, a principled approach for application development in SDR networks. CrossFlow defines fundamental radio port abstractions and an interface to manipulate them. It provides a flexible and modular cross-layer architecture using the principles of SDR and a mechanism for centralized control using the principles of SDN. Through the convergence of SDN and SDR, Cross- Flow works towards providing a target independent framework for application development in wireless radio networks. We validate our design using proof-of-concept applications, namely, adaptive modulation, frequency hopping, and cognitive radio.
KW - Dynamic reconfigurability
KW - GNU radio
KW - OpenFlow
KW - Software-defined networking
KW - Software-defined radios
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85009461332
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-51204-4_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-51204-4_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85009461332
SN - 9783319512037
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 369
EP - 381
BT - Ad Hoc Networks - 8th International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2016, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Zhou, Yifeng
A2 - Kunz, Thomas
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 8th EAI International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, ADHOCNETS 2016
Y2 - 26 September 2016 through 27 September 2016
ER -