Demo

Lalith Suresh, Julius Schulz-Zander, Ruben Merz, Anja Feldmann
2012 Computer communication review  
We present a demo of Odin, an SDN framework to program enterprise wireless local area networks (WLANs). Enterprise WLANs need to support a wide range of services and functionalities. This includes authentication, authorization and accounting, policy, mobility and interference management, and load balancing. WLANs also exhibit unique challenges. In particular, access point (AP) association decisions are not made by the infrastructure, but by clients. In addition, the association state machine
more » ... bined with the broadcast nature of the wireless medium requires keeping track of a large amount of state changes. To this end, Odin builds on a light virtual AP abstraction that greatly simplifies client management. Odin does not require any client side modifications and its design supports WPA2 Enterprise. With Odin, a network operator can implement enterprise WLAN services as network applications.
doi:10.1145/2377677.2377730 fatcat:wo25ki7tsvdnvcfbh64n6aucwq