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The evolvable nature of software defined wireless networking offers great opportunities toward the design and implementation of a low-cost network testbed for smart home. Programmability is an essential component on a network gateway to enable efficient management of energy and other network resources for secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. In this paper, we proposed a software defined edge-cloud network architecture for smart home. We studied the programmable features of several popular SoC and FPGA platforms and design a software defined wireless network testbed for smart home by integrating several open-source projects including OpenWrt, Lede, and OpenFlow, which may be extended for other application scenarios such as smart grid and Internet-of-Things. We implemented WiFi, BLE, and ZigBee networking features on our low-cost FPGA and SoC platforms and evaluated the TCP and UDP throughput on our testbed. We conducted a series of experiments on our testbed and examined optimization issues based on recent developments in SDN. Our testbed may provide experiment supports for advancing smart home research and development.
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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61370231), and in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. HUST:2016YXMS303).
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Nsunza, W.W., Rutunda, S., Hei, X. (2017). Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Software Defined Wireless Network Testbed for Smart Home. In: Wang, G., Atiquzzaman, M., Yan, Z., Choo, KK. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage. SpaCCS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10658. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72395-2_35
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