Towards programmable enterprise WLANS with Odin

By L. Suresh, Julius Schulz-Zander, Ruben Merz, Anja Feldmann, T. Vazão. HotSDN '12, 2012

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We present Odin, an SDN framework to introduce programmability in enterprise wireless local area networks (WLANs). Enterprise WLANs need to support a wide range of services and functionalities. This includes authentication, authorization and accounting, policy, mobility and interference management, and load balancing. WLANs also exhibit unique challenges. In particular, access point (AP) association decisions are not made by the infrastructure, but by clients. In addition, the association state machine combined with the broadcast nature of the wireless medium requires keeping track of a large amount of state changes. To this end, Odin builds on a light virtual AP abstraction that greatly simplifies client management. Odin does not require any client side modifications and its design supports WPA2 Enterprise. With Odin, a network operator can implement enterprise WLAN services as network applications. A prototype implementation demonstrates Odin's feasibility.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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5G roadmap: 10 key enabling technologies (2016, background): “In the literature, several studies [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] have explored integrating SDN with 5G network from academic and/or industrial perspectives.”
A Survey of Software-Defined Networking: Past, Present, and Future of Programmable Networks (2014, neutral): “Odin[92] introduces programmability in enterprise wireless”
Software defined networking: State of the art and research challenges (2014, neutral): “A prototype of SDN, Odin, was described in [95] and was intended to enable network operators to deploy WLAN services as network applications.”
Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey (2014, background): “[93] propose Odin, a prototype SDN architecture that simplifies client management in a WLAN.”
Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “Thor [358] is also an extension of Odin [356] that introduces energy efficient mobility management for WLANs.”
Resource Slicing in Virtual Wireless Networks: A Survey (2016, background): “Odin [16], [17] is a framework for enabling the pro-grammability of a wireless network.”