Title: SD-6LN: improved existing internet of things framework by incorporating software defined network approach

Authors: Rohit Kumar Das; Arnab Kumar Maji; Goutam Saha

Addresses: School of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India ' Department of Information Technology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India ' Department of Information Technology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the prominent technologies in today's world, where its real-time applications are being utilised in various areas. In spite of the fact that the advancement made by IoT is highly remarkable, the current IoT foundation experiences confinements such as availability, reliability, scalability, resiliency, interoperability, security and privacy. Software-Defined Network (SDN) is an approach that can help in resolving many of the IoT limitations. In this paper, a novel SD-6LN architecture has been proposed for existing IPv6 over Low Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) based IoT infrastructure. The SD-6LN architecture incorporates the network layer of IoT and SDN to address some of the challenges of traditional resource constraint IoT network systems such as availability, reliability, scalability and resiliency. The experimentation was carried out in simulation. The experimental results indicated improved performance with respect to round trip time, jitter, packet drop, latency and throughput.

Keywords: architecture; internet of things; OpenFlow; software-defined network; 6LoWPAN.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2022.125144

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2022 Vol.13 No.4, pp.406 - 413

Received: 21 Mar 2020
Accepted: 25 Feb 2021
Published online: 31 Aug 2022 *

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