SoftAir: Towards to 5G Systems via a Software Defined Network Architecture

Collaborative Publications

  • Janakaraj, P., Pinyoanuntapong, P., Wang, P., Lee, M., and Akyildiz, I. F., "Enabling AI-oriented Wireless Network Operating System for Self Driving Wireless Networks," under preparation for journal publication.
     
  • Lee, A., Wang, P., Lin, S.-C., Akyildiz, I. F., and Luo, M., "Dynamic bandwidth allocation in SDN based next generation virtual networks: a deterministic network calculus approach," 2018 Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., Akyildiz, I. F., and Min, L., "Towards Optimal Network Planning for Software-Defined Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 2953-2967, 1 Dec. 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Lee, A., Wang, P., Lin, S.-C., Akyildiz, I. F., and Luo, M., "Dynamic bandwidth allocation in SDN based next generation virtual networks: a deterministic network calculus approach," 2018 Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., Akyildiz, I. F., and Luo, M., "Delay-Based Maximum Power-Weight Scheduling with Heavy-Tailed Traffic," to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2017.
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., Akyildiz, I. F., and Luo, M., "Throughput-Optimal LIFO Policy for Bounded Delay in the Presence of Heavy-Tailed Traffic," to appear in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, Washington, DC USA, Dec. 2016.  [PDF]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., and Min, L., "Control Traffic Balancing in Software Defined Networks," Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 106, pp. 260-271, September 2016.  [PDF]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Akyildiz, I. F., Wang, P., and Luo, M., "QoS-Aware Adaptive Routing in Multi-layer Hierarchical Software Defined Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach," Proc. of 2016 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), San Francisco, USA, June 2016, pp. 25-33.  [PDF]
     
  • Wang, P., Luo, M., and Lin, S.-C., "A Framework for QoS-aware Traffic Classication Using Semi-supervised Machine Learning in SDNs," Proc. of 2016 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), San Francisco, USA, June 2016, pp. 760-765.
     
  • Akyildiz, I.F., Lee, A., Wang, P., Luo, M., and Chou, W. , "Research Challenges for Traffic Engineering in Software Defined Networks," IEEE Network, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 52-58, May-June 2016. [PDF]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., and Min, L., "Jointly Optimized QoS-Aware Virtualization and Routing in Software Defined Networks," Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 96, pp. 69-78, February 2016. [PDF]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., "Wireless Software-defined Networks (W-SDNs) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for 5G Cellular Systems: An Overview and Qualitative Evaluation," Computer Network (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 93, Part 1, pp. 66-79, December 2015.  [Full Article]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Wang, P., and Lin, S.-C., "SoftAir: A Software Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Wireless Systems," Computer Network (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 85, pp. 1-18, July 2015.  [PDF]
     

Visits

  • Dr. Pu Wang visited the BWN Lab on May 1-2, 2017.

SDN Testbed

We are building a software-defined wireless mesh network testbed at UNCC, namely softmesh, which will consist of 15 software-defined mesh routers with reconfigurable networking, MAC, and physical layer functionalities. A custom-designed cloud network controller, namely MeshOS, has been developed, which manages and controls the whole testbed using the plug-and-play software application. We will continue to implement and test the proposed cloud-based spectrum database and virtualization-enabled network optimization algorithms in the testbed.

The testbed can be accessed at http://www.softmeshnet.com/