Towards A Distributed Control System For Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks

Hlabishi I. Kobo; Gerhard P. Hancke; Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz

doi:10.1109/iecon.2017.8217064

Towards A Distributed Control System For Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks

Hlabishi I. Kobo^*, Gerhard P. Hancke, Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz

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Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a developing networking paradigm that advocates a complete overhaul of the conventional networking. SDN decouples the control logic from the data forwarding functionality; which traditionally are coupled on the network device. The coupling stifles innovation and evolution because the network often becomes rigid. Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks (SDWSN) is also an emerging network paradigm that infuses the SDN model into Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). WSNs have inherent constraints such as energy, memory etc. which have been a major hindrance of their progress. The application of SDN model in WSN is set to cultivate the potential of WSNs in modern communication and to bring about the efficiency that the WSNs have not yet achieved due to their inherent constraints. SDN based networks are anchored on the central controller for functionality. As the network scale up, issues of scalability, reliability and congestion arises and for that a distributed controllers are proposed. This paper investigates the viability of a distributed control system for SDWSN. The test results conducted show that it is viable to deploy a distributed control system for SDWSN; however an improvement is needed on the efficiency.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	6125-6130
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-1127-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/iecon.2017.8217064
Publication status	Published - Oct 2017
Event	43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2017) - China National Convention Center, Beijing, China Duration: 29 Oct 2017 → 1 Nov 2017 http://iecon2017.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1

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Name	Annual Conference of Industrial Electronics Society
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	1553-572X

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Conference	43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2017)
Place	China
City	Beijing
Period	29/10/17 → 1/11/17
Internet address	http://iecon2017.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1

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Distributed controller
SDN
SDN Controllers
SDWSN
WSN

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Kobo, HI, Hancke, GP & Abu-Mahfouz, AM 2017, Towards A Distributed Control System For Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks. in IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Annual Conference of Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE, pp. 6125-6130, 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2017), Beijing, China, 29/10/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/iecon.2017.8217064

Towards A Distributed Control System For Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks. / Kobo, Hlabishi I.; Hancke, Gerhard P.; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan M.
IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. IEEE, 2017. p. 6125-6130 (Annual Conference of Industrial Electronics Society).

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