TY - GEN
T1 - Demystifying link congestion in 4G-LTE backhaul using OpenFlow
AU - Venmani, Daniel Philip
AU - Zeghlache, Djamal
AU - Gourhant, Yvon
PY - 2012/7/23
Y1 - 2012/7/23
N2 - Despite the research community's extensive research towards the advancement in cellular communications, it nevertheless remains an irresolvable problem until now to tackle link congestion. Congestion in communication links may be due to traffic overload and/or link failures and/or node failures when we consider the wireless backhaul infrastructure of the network operators. While the physical layer technologies have evolved providing high-capacity air-interfaces, network devices have improved in computational power and a vast amount of exciting applications have emerged, the backhaul network architecture in its structure has not seen much change from its early days. With this as starting point, in this paper we claim that with a few "intelligent" design changes within the backhaul architecture of network operators incorporating OpenFlow protocol within the access and aggregation nodes, tackling congestion in communication links, thus becomes achievable.
AB - Despite the research community's extensive research towards the advancement in cellular communications, it nevertheless remains an irresolvable problem until now to tackle link congestion. Congestion in communication links may be due to traffic overload and/or link failures and/or node failures when we consider the wireless backhaul infrastructure of the network operators. While the physical layer technologies have evolved providing high-capacity air-interfaces, network devices have improved in computational power and a vast amount of exciting applications have emerged, the backhaul network architecture in its structure has not seen much change from its early days. With this as starting point, in this paper we claim that with a few "intelligent" design changes within the backhaul architecture of network operators incorporating OpenFlow protocol within the access and aggregation nodes, tackling congestion in communication links, thus becomes achievable.
KW - Backhaul Networks
KW - Link Congestion
KW - OpenFlow
KW - Seamless Connectivity
KW - Software Defined Networking.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84863890679
U2 - 10.1109/NTMS.2012.6208711
DO - 10.1109/NTMS.2012.6208711
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863890679
SN - 9781467302296
T3 - 2012 5th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security - Proceedings of NTMS 2012 Conference and Workshops
BT - 2012 5th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security - Proceedings of NTMS 2012 Conference and Workshops
T2 - 2012 5th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS 2012
Y2 - 7 May 2012 through 10 May 2012
ER -