AiroLAB: a framework toward effective virtualisation of multi-hop wireless networks. (8th April 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Doriguzzi Corin, Roberto; Riggio, Roberto; Miorandi, Daniele; Salvadori, Elio
• Is Part Of: International journal of communication networks and distributed systems. Volume 6:Number 3(2011)
• Page Start: 302
• Page End: 321
• Publication Date: 2011-04-08
• Subjects: network virtualisation -- multi-hop wireless networks -- communications networks -- embedded devices -- resource constrained environments -- network resources -- resource sharing; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Telecommunication systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; 004.6
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-3916

Abstract

In this work, we introduce AiroLAB, a novel network virtualisation framework specifically tailored to multi-hop wireless networks. AiroLAB departs from conventional network virtualisation approaches by focusing on embedded, resource-constrained devices and by aiming at providing Wireless Internet Service Providers with an effective virtualisation mechanism where network resources are shared between production traffic and a variable number of experimental slices allowing novel solutions and services to be tested in a controlled yet realistic environment. In the paper, the design choices at the hearth of AiroLAB are presented, together with an early-stage prototype implementation and experimental results obtained in a small-scale wireless network testbed.