Augmenting Campus Wireless Architectures with SDN
William Brockelsby, Rudra Dutta · 2023
Campus wireless networks have become mission-critical as mobility and digital paradigms, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), have become more pervasive. In this work, we review the characteristics of typical campus 802.11 wireless architectures and develop an approach for collecting traffic within this context in support of analyzing contemporary traffic patterns within wireless networks. We then determine if characteristic traffic patterns within the wireless domain support the development of a hybrid Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture to augment traditional wireless infrastructure in support of policy-driven networking.