Towards Programmable Networking With CoopNet: A Horizontal Parallel Multipath Approach
Razvan Cristian Voicu, Yusun Chang · 2023
The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication provide a system for collecting and manipulating big data and a platform for sensing, actuating, and automating the environment. IoT, M2M communication, social networking, and mass multimedia severely strain the communication infrastructure. Thus, the archaic communication frameworks require necessary improvements. One such improvement is the simultaneous usage of parallel communication links of differing radio access networks. This paper presents a Machine Learning (ML) optimization for link selection and use in CoopNet, a horizontal programmable communication architecture. Programmable networking paves the way for advancing communication to improve performance, reliability, security, and policy-based applications, including network decoupling. The ML implementation in CoopNet improves throughput by over 17%, delay by 10%, and reduces individual link utilization.