Managing the mobile Ad-hoc cloud ecosystem using software defined networking principles
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Ahmed Karmouch · 2017
In order to address the ossification of the traditional network, there have been many studies that show the benefits of the orthogonality offered by the principles of Software Defined Networking (SDN). Therefore, as the concept of SDN saw wide spread acceptance, it's adaptability in wireless networks began to emerge. Many proposals in the literature have addressed the issues that are related to the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs). A computing environment formed atop a MANET that is closely linked to the rigidity of the underlying network is called Mobile Ad-hoc Cloud. In this paper we show how a seamless disruption tolerant mobile ad-hoc cloud can be maintained with the assistance of the adaptive principles offered by the SDN framework. Further, we demonstrate how a selection of mobile ad-hoc cloud composition traffic can reduce the latency in task computation and result collection in comparison with the traditional non-SDN ecosystem.