Slicing aware QoS/QoE in software defined smart home network
Saoussen Chaabnia, Aref Meddeb · 2018
Home networks are gaining a large portion of the global wired and wireless network fabric. These networks present more and more challenges due to their growing heterogeneity, user high expectations versus scare resources. The continued emergence of applications and devices with stringent Quality of Service and Quality of Experience requirements call for novel solutions, effective in aggregating and managing the resources of smart house-holds. Software defined networking offers a high degree of flexibility for implementing such networking solutions to improve the performance of smart homes. In prior works on SDHN, the focus was either on slicing the control plane or on traffic management in the data plane of the home networks. In this work, we are combining the two approaches by associating a data plane bandwidth slicing model to the control plane slices that accommodates the flows data rate requirement. By investigating different slicing strategies, we aim to determine the best strategy that provides isolation, fair resource sharing, good QoE, and performance improvement which are very important factors for effective management of the future smart residential networks.